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"Did you…did you kiss hi a little now Nolan just kept her back toreflected in the sha, and she brought her hands up to cover her mouth She turned to face me so slowly it killed me By the time ere eye-to-eye, her face et, and her eyes were red with guilt I slid off balance a little, bracinginto the wood I wouldn’t let her gaze go I just kept it Taking in a deep breath, I asked her one more tih I already knehen she nodded yes, and closed her eyes, it was like someone had stabbed me in the heart My entire life just whirled by …everything was fking ruined! Unable to take being in this room another second, I pushed fro it closed behind me with such force that it bounded back open and the sound reverberated down the hall

I got to the stairwell and flung that door open, too, and was sliding down the stairs several at a ti fast enough Then I heard her voice--her pathetic-sounding pleas And it all just broke ain

"Reed! Please, don’t leave You have to understand, you have to letto fall if she kept up that speed I just stopped when I was one floor away from my freedom and turned to wait for her When she sawa hand over her mouth while she cried and shook

"Nolan, when I said never…I fking meant it," I said, solemnly while I shook my head and looked down at the steps between us "What…what the hell happened?"

She looked up and took in a deep breath, wrapping her ar herself not to be sick When she looked back down at ed "I don’t really know It just sort of happened…" she was soft, full of shame

I turned to look away frohts, and putlike that just sort of happen? Was it…a sain with hope that it was soain, I knew there was nothing innocent about what had happened between her and Gavin

Shakingaway from her slowly "Noles, I don’t think I want to hear anymore I…I just can’t," I was cold now I didn’t want her following me, but I didn’t want to beelse she had to say, I was going to be I was at theto pull the door to leave when she caught up toain

"Reed, please!" she pleaded

I turned to look at her, so darab both sides of her face and kissed her hard, willing myself to erase the pain But the more I kissed her, the ht about her lips on Gavin’s, and how she actually wanted theently I scrunched e to ask

"Are you…into hiive ain, hit in the face with an entirely new devastating fact

"No, I’od," she was covering herher eyes shut

I just reached for her wrists to take them in my hands and pull theo," I said, my heart broken as I turned away fro back? Are we…okay?" she was blubbering now

I just shrugged my shoulders a bit at her words "I don’t know I don’t think so," I said as I let the door fall shut behind ot hoht about stopping atit out with hi h

Somehow, I had made it back toNor her froers and blowing on her neck while she tried to read or concentrate But instead, I was laying flat on , miserable and alone