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“Autu me you love me since you were almost seventeen years old”

“Then why are you doing this? You at least owe me that”

I would never forget the expression on his face when he confessed, “At Christian’s bachelor party last weekend, I fucked someone else, kid”

—Julian—

“You’re lying!”

“Do I ever lie to you?”

She wrapped her aresture while I waited to finally end us once and for all

“Who?”

“It doesn’t matter”

“Then why are you telling me?”

“I’h for you”

“That didn’t stop you fro with me, did it?”

“If anything, kid, you should be thankful it was me and not some boy in the back of his car who doesn’t even kno to make you come”

“Oh, because you did?”

“Yeah, just askwet sheets”

“You arrogant asshole!”

“What do you want from me? You want me to lie and tell you I love you when I don’t? You want me to hurt you more than I already am? More than I already have?”

“You knohat I want It’s what I’ve alanted It hasn’t changed, it never changes You know it as much as I do All I’ve ever wanted is you”

I hated that she was speaking the truth

“I want you to look me in the eyes and swear toain”

“We’re not together, kid I didn’t cheat on you”

I debated for the last week if I was going to do this If I truly had the strength to tell her this I thought about it for hours on end, drivingto do hen it came to us