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"What?" I interrupt in shock "What makes you think you’ll lose ret "Because you’ll wake up one day and realize you deserve better Don’t you see? Last night was a previehat it’s going to be like We’ll have plans, but I’ll end up having to work late, or et wasted and fall down the stairs, and then I’ll have to cancel on you, or worse, keep you waiting like I did last night How long do you think you’ll put up with that?"

Disbelief hurtles throughto break up with you because you an doesn’t respond, but his stony expression tells me that yes, he does believe that

"Doesn’t your brother have a girlfriend he’s been with forever?" I point out

"Kylie," he mumbles

"Well, did Kylie break up with hi to stand by hiry I shoot to e to smack some sense into him "So what makes you think I won’t stand by you?"

His silence irks the living fuck out of me

"You knohat, John? Screw you" I struggle to control"Clearly you don’t know ive up on a relationship the moment it hits a few obstacles"

He finally answers, his voice low and sullen "Can we please not talk about this anyape at hi And unable to listen to it for even a second longer

"You’re right We won’t talk about it anyrabthe strap over ets his attention Frowning, he slowly rises to his feet "Grace--"

I cut hioing to leave you to your sulking, and maybe when you’re finished with your one-man pity party, we can actually have a rational conversation" I’ mad as I march toward the door "And just in case my reaction to your idiocy didn’t make it clear where I stand with us, then let me spell it out for you" I whirl around to scowl at him "I love you, you stupid jackass"

Then I storan

It takes er than it should to snap out of the shocked trance I’ve fallen into Myat a rapid pace as I stare at the door Grace just tore out of

She’s absolutely right I am a jackass And I did doubt her commitment to our relationship And--

Wait She loves ape, in fact, because her last words have finally registered in my extremely idiotic brain She loves me Even after I indicted her for a hypothetical future break-up and pretty ets tough, she still told me she loved me