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“Is that all you have to say?” Anger bubbled up unexpectedly as she unclipped the seat belt and twisted to face hih to ask aze dropped to the dashboard “Would it ht, if you could be bothered
He was going to get it anyway “You’re insistent about leaving You’ve said over and over again that after today it’s over That’s it, finito—”
“We agreed that’s hoould be”
Her fury grew at his atteo along with it, stupid to think I could e yourto have my heart ripped out and discarded like a piece of trash”
“That’s not fair—”
“None of this is fair, but there’s no way I can play out the final scene in public, Matt” She fisted her hand and banged it on her knee, willing hiirlfriend breaks down in tears at aze met hers and for the first time, she noticed dark shadows under his eyes It seeht you were stronger than this”
“Before today, so did I, but I can’t hold this charade together any and I hate you for it”
“I don’t want to hurt you, Piper That was never part of the plan”
“Well, that was a fail” She roughly brushed off his hand as he went to touch her on the shoulder and felt a second of triumph at the shock on his face “You know, for soent, you’re incredibly stupid You run away fro deeper than a paper cut That doesn’t make you much of a oing to let up until she had said what she needed to say “Keep this up and you’ll end up a lonely old man with no friends, no fa your bank balance swell There’s more to life than the top of the corporate ladder and the bottolass”
He stared back at the windshield, his neck and jaw rigid “You should go”
“Because you say so?” She laughed bitterly “You should have said that to your father before he left you Itrun”
“Get out, Piper”
That last remark was out of order, but she’d wanted it to hurt, to , to provoke hi that would kill the love she felt “But you’re still a kid under all those tattoos and designer clothes, aren’t you, Matt?” He leaned across her and thrust open the car door “A scared little boy who’s grown so used to being unwanted that he’s forgotten how to love”
He purse landed with a clatter on the sidewalk “Get The fuck Out”
So that was that
Over