"I need you more than I can take."

"I thought I was over him. Then it turned out I wasn't." She gave me a helpless shrug, her face hopeless, her hands fidgeting around her phone (the screen dimming, a little like her expression).

I chose my words carefully, fingers tightening on the steering wheel. "I find that emotions are like a wave. They recede, you think it's alright to wade in now because it's shallow but you forget- waves do that to gather in force. So you're standing there, your legs in the water, your eyes on the shore and you never see the wave when it returns. It crashes over you and you drown, swallowing and spitting. Legs kicking, arms flailing, you have to fight to break out of the water."

There was a moment of silence between us.

"Did you love him?" I tried to ask the question as gently as possible.

Her hands tangled in her hair as she pondered. Finally, she looked down and mumbled, "How would I know if I were in love?"

(I thought on it and realised that I too wouldn't know if love walked in on me and pushed me down a flight of stairs)

"You promise forever and a day then you take it all away."

I find that I have a certain weakness for Ellie Goulding.