"So, I'm actually moving in a month." SD dropped the bomb on her for the few minutes they spent together before she had to get back to Goldie's dog. Goldie herself was moving out of the building next summer.
"Is it weird, coming back here now that you don't live here anymore?" Mel asked when he was over to visit. "No," she answered, "It still feels like home."
She realized suddenly that soon she would have no reason to go back to her old building. The place she still considered home. Though she had a place to stash her crap, it didn't feel like home. She knew it wasn't going to be forever.
The next day she had a start of a panic attack and didn't know why. Talking through it with Banana she realized that it was just because it was like moving out of the building all over again, losing her home all over again. Luckily the sudden knowledge of what she was panicking about stopped the attack, but the sadness of the situation remained.
She was emotionally homeless.
