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I nodded "Great I’ll text you"

Once inside my loft, I stood alone and stared blindly into space I quickly thought about an’s face before he walked away So hard and i when I rejected him in front of his brother and Pepper I’d handled that badly, although I’o down any differently Sos just weren’t, but not really caring about my day-to-day tasks It was reue state of bewilderut and didn’t quite knohy that happened, only that it hurt like hell

Where it differed was that this orse than my breakup with Harris I’d spent four years with Harris and just a feeeks fooling around with Logan, but this felt worse My sto bad

I had successfully killed any chance of being with Logan again--even in a physical no-strings-attached kind of way He had too ain Not after I shut him down in front of Reece and Pepper Which hat I had wanted What I had set out to do End it once and for all

So why did eing on popcorn and M&M’s, zoning out as I watched a Walking Deadreet Jones’s Diary so fast Ifor their lives frory zombies fit the bill nicely

I was in the sareasy ponytail and all I may or may not have brushed my teeth yet

When my phone buzzed beside h and answered it I’d dodged her call earlier this week and knew I couldn’t do it again Not without her sending out the National Guard

"Hey, Mohoan She insisted there had to be ti weekend And there was I could leave on a Thursday and come home on Sunday Except I didn’t want to Despite my current misery, I liked it here I liked the cooler northeastern su for Dr Chase I likedme fried pickles every time I passed

But how could I explain that to Mo I did was to make Mom proud To prove that my birth had not been a mistake

I knew that was h inlad I was born, that I was not a constant rement

"Moageeon in Auburn "Do you rean’s house?"

"Why are you bringing that up?"

"I don’t know Because it’sPopsicles on the edge of that pool with you" You had seemed happy with me then When it was just the two of us I had seehts scudded across my mind, but I didn’t dare say theretted what came after My stepdad Amber Our very serious and respectable suburban existence