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I’ve had Emerson Ray’s na could ever change that

"You can come back to the city with me, you know" Daniel tells me

I shake my head "I told you, I can’t…"

"No, this isn’t about us" he interrupts "I get it now, it’s over But that doesn’t mean I don’t care about you, Juliet And I can’t stand to see you like this"

"A e to quip, but he shakes his head, stern

"So… helpless"

My mouth drops open in protest Daniel’s face softens as he looks at ently "I’ around in this house, waiting for him to come and choose to love you That’s not a relationship, Juliet, it’s a hostage situation"

His words slip under my defenses with a shiver of truth I want to defend E but his voicemail as co, the girl I kneouldn’t take this crap fro it "You had a plan, a whole vision of what you wanted your life to be What happened to all those plans? Don’t just throw all of that away"

"I’s over"

"So where is he?" Daniel challenges "While you’re doing all this thinking"

"I don’t know" I reply in a quiet voice

"Are you going to stay here?" Daniel continues "What about college, and finals, and jobs?"

"I don’t know, OK!" My cry echoes in the house I foldcornered by his questions "I was going to move to DC with you," I point out "How is this any different?"

"We ether" Daniel tells hed up all the options--for the both of us Co with the frayed edge of the blanket Daniel is talking sense, but the disappoint is still an open wound, raw and bloody I don’t know if I’hs "Just let , OK?"

I look back, and reluctantly nod

"If this love is as epic as you say it is--for him, not just you," he adds quickly "Then were the hell is he?"

The question sits between us, laid out on the bare hardwood floors All iven a voice, and harder still, a look of painful syaze