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“Wait Are you being serious right now?”

“Yes?”

“For real—are you being serious?” I laugh it off, but he’s not s around”

“Does that actually sound like soht et back at your ex-boyfriend or make him jealous”

MyMy face flushes—not from embarrassment, but from a little bit of shame? Is that what this emotion is? I’m appalled

Disappointed

Confused “I don’t understand how your o there”

He pulls a face “All the eleyou, the kiss in front of hi me that wasn’t part of some plan?”

Save ?”

“’Kay, that didn’t coet what I mean You did text me and said to save you What else am I supposed to think?”

“Uht wasn’t a twisted plan to putyou What kind of girl do you think I am?”

Roe of the bed by socking him with a pillow

Throwing back the covers, I step onto the floor, rising “That’s your opinion of me?”

My brain floats back to earlier in the evening when he asked if I was drunk And sure, there h to et myself

“No, that’s not my opinion of you” His voice is calut “All I’ looked froht have made me feel?”

“Then what is your opinion of me?”

“I think…” He speaks slowly, clearing his throat before continuing “You’re a girl who just broke up with her boyfriend You’ve been hurt by hiht, so you called me”

How is he sitting there so calmly when I have suddenly become a ball of nerves?

“Kyle and I dated for four h time to be brokenhearted All I need him to do is leave me alone”

“Right And you…” He clears his throat again “Used me to make that happen”

“I was not using you to get back at hio away I just wanted you there because it’s coed “How did this conversation go fro ht was a lark in an attempt to make my boyfriend jealous?” Oops “I meant my ex-boyfriend”

“I’u through my mind”

I walk out of the roo, bypass Eliza and Jack’s bedrooe barefoot down the stairs and through the kitchen to the side door