Me — Dramahd

It started, as these things often do, with a typo.

It was their code for: I'm falling apart, but I trust you to fall with me.

"Wait. Did you just invent a new tense of drama? Past perfect catastrophic?" dramahd me

Lena laughed so hard she snorted, took the twig, and snapped it in half.

Lena didn't notice. She tossed her phone on the charger and fell into a coma-like sleep, dreaming of anxious golden retrievers. It started, as these things often do, with a typo

And that, truly, is the best kind of drama there is.

Lena smiled for the first time in a week. She typed out the real story: the impossible client at work who accused her of neglecting his cat (she hadn't), the landlord raising rent again, the weird silence from her dad's recent check-ups. It all spilled out, raw and unpolished. Did you just invent a new tense of drama

Lena nodded. "It means the drama had you. But more importantly, it means you had me. Past, present, and future tense."