low' button. Then I removed him from my followers. The lit

t was a picture of the two of them

message read. "Thank yo

e "You're welcome" a

old high school group chat a

ur game and the entire girls' team got distract

aste fille

ply: "He's my guar

h an unreadable expression, a coldness that I mistook for maturity. Maybe if I had seen the

t aching with an emptiness so prof

The designer dress he'd bought me, the

is time, I didn't hesitate. I packed away every gift, eve

door, I saw his car pull into the driveway. H

his smile vanished. "Where do yo

ly. "School starts soo

myself say. My voice was

ut another word, he picked it up, walked over to the large char

oed in the q

aid, his voice hard as steel. "You will

l trying to

ings were now discarded as trash. A cold wave washed ove

rned and walked back into

Amelia ask, "Ethan,

e wind. "She's grown up. She needs t

door, leanin

as r

And I was finall