'Late Night Snack' by Suzanne Hicks

I should have told you, I mean, I should have asked you first, I just thought you didn’t want them, that they were too old and stale for your liking, and this isn’t an excuse, but it’s just that the apartment was so quiet because you’d gone to your parent’s house to do laundry and decided to stay overnight, and it was just so late and maybe my judgment was off, I just didn’t think it was a big deal at the time, you seemed like you’d had enough, and I saw those cupcakes on the counter, and all of a sudden I had a craving, so I took a bite of one and then another and that’s when he rang our doorbell…