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“Well, maybe we shouldn’t talk for awhile, then”

“…Kevin…”

“Maybe we should take a break”

“Kevin, come on – there’s only teeks left, and then we’ll both be back home – ”

“I don’t knoho you are so more and more like your roommate – ”

“I’M NOT SHANNA, Kevin! I’m with YOU! I’m in love with YOU!”

“You don’t act like it sometimes”

“Jesus CHRIST, I o ahead and cheat on you since you PUNISH me like I have anyway!”

Silence

“…I can’t believe you just said that”

“Kevin… I’m sorry… I didn’t mean it, it’s just you make me so MAD when you – ”

“Go ahead Sleep hoever you want”

“KEVIN – ”

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Unfortunately, that wasn’t the first time we’d had that conversation, alits

Kevin was ia We’d been dating since 10th grade He was so nervous when he asked h But he finally got all the way through it, and I said ‘yes’ I liked hirew to love hient We shared the sa world-class journalists so on the school newspaper

We dated five inity to hi Sex was good with him I never wanted to tear his clothes off in a half-insane state of passion… but he was attentive and considerate

But he was also incredibly insecure

He was that way froot worse as time went on I was a late blooet ly until I was 16 But all of a sudden in 11th grade, BAM, I kind of came into ot a fashion sense Boys started noticing ot a lot of attention where I hadn’t before – like, ‘captain of the football teaot the nerve to askto lose ht that if we ‘sealed the deal,’ I’d stay with him

It was never about that for me He was my first love, and I would have stayed with him no matter what I definitely wouldn’t have cheated on him, ever When I elve, ue of hers Even though ether, it destroyed e I hated ave her for what she did to my father and our family, but I swore to h that