Everybody Talks

She lay there dissecting every line in her mind as the tears rolled down her cheek onto the white Egyptian cotton pillowcase. Maybe - conditional adverb meaning something is a possibility. We, group pronoun, now broken into two individual pronouns you and I. Can, a slightly more direct verb but still operating conditionally under the presence of maybe. Talk- something they once did often but the subject of which had recently become inherently less in depth that she was accustomed. Sometime- here we are back to the conditional and undefined. Everything in her life seemed to come with conditions these days. An eternal bartering system really. But it was not unlike him to make everything a negotiation. Even his relationships acted as business transactions. You give this and in exchange I shall provide that. “Seems to be getting harder to keep score these days doesn’t it” she thought.