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“You’re not happy with me” It was a statement, rather than a question

“That’s not what - ”

“When do you leave?”

He sighed and rubbed his face before resting his hands on his hips

“I fly out tomorrow to meet with the CEO”

“Tooes to my flat belly but Brody doesn’t notice

“It all happened so quickly,” he retorts quickly “What was I supposed to do? Turn down my dream job?”

“Talk to e your life, Brody! It changes mine too!”

“I get that, Deo when you’ve graduated and we can be together”

I wipedI never cried It wasn’t part of who I was I simply picked myself up and moved on, like I had always done But nowthat or the tears running down my face

“So that’s it then? You’re going and I’m supposed to follow you when I’m done with school?”

“Fuck, Demi, I want to build a life for us, why can’t you understand that?”

“What’s wrong with the life we have here?” I asked I hiccupped and fought the bile clawing its way up my throat

Brody hung his head and shook it “It’s not the life I want for us”

“Stop doing that, stop saying ‘for us’ I like h - ”

“Not forme off “I need more, Demi”

I reared back as if he’d slapped me and sucked in a sharp breath I took a step back and pulled h to say what I needed to