I Don't Want to Be Alone

I've never really been the social type, I've always been more comfortable alone. My father died when I was five years old and my mother spent so much time working to keep us fed that I hardly ever saw her. When everyone was moving out into shared houses for second year, I stayed in a nice cozy room for one in university accommodation. The only person who ever really seemed to worry about it was Pastor David. He worked in the chaplaincy and I saw him occasionally when work or stress was getting to me. But he used to tell me it wasn't natural for people to live in isolation, that we were creatures of community by nature. Back then I didn't know what

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