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"Still notsense to me"

"If I’m there, then it’ll be a problem I know it I have to not be there, and then it won’t happen"

"So you’re assuure their own shit out because of your mere presence?"

I stopped An anchor dropped ine would happen then "Stop it, EIt hurt every day I sed it It’s what I had been doing every day It’s what I would have to keep doing

"I’ll stop asking questions about theht there It was still fresh and it was still overpowering Feeling the tears again, I left and escaped into the bathroo in the back booth was normal for , but I didn’t care No one said a word Whenever I left the bathroom, I kept my head down I went from class to class and the only person who ventured to talk to me was Emily Becky wrote me a note She explained that Adam was hurt by my choice and she needed to be his friend and support hith to explain what really happened, nor did I care any was my first priority Emily didn’t put any demands on me This last conversation was the closest she had co my decision

After an hour in the bathroo and then I left It was the last class of the day I could go ho to avoid Eh she kept her distance from me if she knew I had been in the bathroom, I didn’t see him until I was already at my locker

I saw his feet first

I stopped, paralyzed, and then I snapped out of it My head jerked up and there he was Logan

He aiting for h rowled at ht anymore"

My eyes widened He had never used that tone withfor a response, "I don’t knohere you get offto dump him, then dump him, but don’t do it because of an,"

"Shut up" His eyes were fierce "Like I said, you don’t get a voice here Not after the shit you pulled"

Everything went flat in me All of it He reached in, took hold of every last reserve I had, every decision I had made, and he yanked it out of ain

Logan continued, "Whatever feelings I MIGHT have for you are only an issue if I ht now they aren’t nice, are mine and ht to decide for me You hear me?"