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Allie

Can we talk?

Plz??

WTF, Allie After everything we’ve been thru, I deserve more then that

U didn’t ht?

Will you plz fuckin ANSWER me?

U knohat? fuck this U wanna keep ignoring me? fine wtevr

There are six textfor me when I check my phone on the way out of the caht They’re all froh the eo unnoticed, I find rammatical error

I deserve more then that

Then, not than And I doubt autocorrect is to blahtest crayon in the box

Okay, that’s not entirely true He’s whip-suy can pull stats out of his ass, even ones dating back to the sixties But book smarts are not his forte Stellar boyfriend doesn’t quite ths either, at least not in recent days

I never wanted to be one of those girls who breaks up and ht I was stronger than that, but Sean McCall has had a hold on me since freshman year at Briar University He sucked orgeous grin, all crooked and dimpled and full of promises

I glance atlike the ivy on the building behindwe needed to say last night When I told him I was done before I stormed out of his frat house, I’d meant it

I am done This is our fourth breakup in three years I can’t keep doing this to myself, this twisted cycle of joy and heartache, especially when the person I’ a future with is determined to hold me back

Even so, o of so It’s even harder when that person refuses to let you go

Sighing, I hurry down the steps toward the cobblestone path that winds through caeous old buildings, the wrought-iron benches and ht I just want to sprint back to my dorm, pull the covers over my head, and shut out the world Luckily, I can totally do that because my roommate Hannah is away this weekend, which means she won’t be around to lecturein my misery

She hadn’t done h Nope, what she did was step up to the plate and knock the best-friend-ever role out of the park TheSean, Hannah had been waiting in our common room with a carton of ice cream, a box of Kleenex, and two bottles of red wine, and she’d proceeded to stay up half the night passingto me babble incoherently

Breakups suck I feel like such a failure No, I feel like a quitter The last piece of advice ive up on love Actually, she’d drilled that into otten sick I don’t know all the details, but it was no secret around e had been on the rocks ether And they’d powered through it They’d worked at it

Every tirows queasy Maybe I should have fought harder for us I mean, I know he loves me—

If he loved you, he wouldn’t have given you an ulti

My throat tightens as I recognize the voice in est cha