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“But it doesn’t change what I saw or how you feel about Landon or how Landon feels about you”
“Oh ive it a rest! I do not love Landon, and Landon does not love me,” she hissed
“I knohat I saw”
“No, you don’t You really don’t You have never given me a chance to explain what you think you saw I can’t sit around and let you walk all over my heart, Jensen I put myself out there after I’d been hurt And then, at the first sign of trouble, you ditched me And all of it could have been fixed with one little conversation that you refused to have with me”
“If you think that one conversation will , then tell me what I saw Tell me what really happened”
“Look, the night you saith Landon was in no way ro a dick when he found us together Then, Heidi and I got drunk, and he offered both of us a ride home I was too drunk to walk to the front door, so he helped ot inside and immediately called you The end That’s the whole story”
“And you were all over him because…”
“One, I was not all over hiood drunk I’et-two-black-eyes kind of drunk Trust me, I’ve been there”
I snorted, just i over like that
“That’s really all that happened?” I asked
I suddenly felt panicked, like maybe Landon hadn’t been the one who overreacted…that I had been the one to overreact If what she was saying was true, then I had hurt her this week for no good reason
“Yes!” she cried, exasperated “And you would know that if you had bothered to pick up the phone Go ask Landon Go ask Heidi! She was in the car that night If anything, I think that Heidi ht be into Landon Not me! I don’t understand what I did to make you not trust me, but I hate this”
“Emery,” I said slowly I was an idiot
“Save it,” she said in frustration, throwing my words back at me
“You’re right,” I said automatically
She gave me a wary look “I am?”
“Yes I am an idiot”
“Well, that’s very obvious at this point”
“What I’ you that I pushed you away I made assumptions It didn’t help that Landon had said that, if I didn’t knohat had really happened in your breakup, then I didn’t know you at all”
Her eyes ignited in fury “He said what?” she cried “Oh, I’ to kill him, I swear”