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“Eet the words back somehow “What the fuck?” I can be heard over the ht
I stare atbutton, but no The text is there, right under his last text tomy own apartment
Emily rolls her eyes and tosses her blond ponytail over her shoulder “You’ve been talking about hooking up with Paul for years now I just did you a favor You’re welcome”
Turning away, she goes back to her ga Like she hadn’t just ruined er
My buzz is DOA Instant sobriety I want to go hoh cash on ht now, I just need a place to disappear I stuWhere the hell are my shoes?
In the closet, I sit a how the hell I can undo this For an hour I literally do just that: Google ‘how to un-send a text’ Apparently, that’s not a thing I guess us fucking idiots are on our own
When I finally , I stay up as long as I can, trying to finish reading the paperback I started three o while I wait for hi, “just kidding!” or telling hilad it’s out there I want hirow heavy and before I know it, I’ chased by fried eggs with a spatula—I have weird-ass drea
When I wake up in the er want Paul to kno I feel about hi
It’s early I alake up early when I’d rather sleep in My phone vibrates, rattling from one end of my bedside table to the other
Shit I can’t look
Instead of dealing with it, I roll over and try to go back to sleep Fat chance with the groundkeepers hbor’s parrot on its perch outside, singing it’s unholy
like soodda throughinto my face
I’over and my stomach is in knots
Closing ht to the ominous “what if” pile and jumps in it like a Labrador in a heap of autu onto do with me? What if he told my dad? I would die If the eood thing is Paul doesn’t live in town He o and I haven’t seen hi him is easy
I sla so stupid Next ti in a lockbox with a key, retina scanner, and most importantly, a breathalyzer I won’t have access to it until I blow under the legal driving limit
Unfortunately, I can’t lay in bed and avoid my phone forever, so I say a hail Mary and pick it up
My entire body sighs when I see it’s from Emily The text says, ‘Get up, bitch, ti’
Still no text back from Paul