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"Really? That’s awesome I love it too," he said as he reached with his free hand to hold ot thereement

Dylan walked me to my door, which felt a little odd since we nor after our dinner dates and said our goodbyes at the end of the night there When what began as a sweet goodnight kiss turned into a ainst my door, I asked him if he wanted to coht Several people had already snickered as they had passed us in the hall and I wasn’t quite ready for exhibitionisainst ainst my lower belly which indicated that he was just as turned on as I was, he declined "Scarlett, I’ot started if I followed you in there I don’t think it’s a very good idea" He kissed ently on the tip of my nose and took a step back

"What if I don’t want you to stop?" I was breathing heavily and still had ainst the door I searched his eyes for answers to the

"Scarlett…" his voice faded off and he looked away "I just can’t Not now, it’s not right for you"

"Don’t I get to decide what’s right forat this point, but da on, Dylan? I swear, sometimes I don’t understand you at all You know I really don’t want to have this conversation out here Can we at least go inside to talk without an audience?"

He looked down at his phone and then back up at me "I can’t, I’m really sorry, Scarlett"

"What? Do you have another date tonight or so so damn weird all of a sudden?" I tried hard not to raise my voice, but the hurt from the rejection of my invitation and the confusion about why the hell he was checking his phone at the end of our date won out "You knohat, just go Whatever Wow What an aay to end as the perfect first date; I sure won’t forget it now" I spun onnot to let him see my cry

"Scarlett, wait…" he said as he reached for rasp as the door unlocked and opened I turned and looked in his dark sapphire eyes "Dylan, up until ten , thank you so much for dinner and the ballet However, until you are ready to tell me why it is we only see each other on Saturdays, why every tis start to heat up between us you stop it, and why you are acting like you are running late for so me off after a date, which by the way is incredibly rude - I’ from whatever else or whomever else it is you need to attend to, I don’t really think we have much to talk about" I turned from him, walked into my dorm, and allowed the door to close in his face It was then that I allowed the tears to flow freely Stupid nice boys

After a scalding hot shower, I changed intoensemble and went to the kitchenette in search of alcohol My hts of Dylan and I couldn’t stop thinking about how things had gone froreat to so bad in a e of Ash or Mason would float by, only adding to ry at Dylan for hiding things when I wasn’t exactly forthcoht before? I hoped we had soet soe rang out just as located a bottle of wine in the fridge I quickly poured a glass and then hurried into ize It wasn’t

Ash (12:42 aotten to text hi to be there I responded quickly so he wouldn’t think so had happened to ot to tell you I wasn’t co

Ash (12:46 aht He just dropped me off

Ash (12:47am): Evie?

Me (12:47 am): Out with Max

Ash (12:51 a ready for bed

Ash (12:55 aht