Chapter Nine: Wake Up Alone

Wake Up Alone by The Chainsmokers

Autumn POV

All eyes were staring at me in disbelief, and I couldn’t really blame them. We were talking about Tyler Vincent after all. He was a nerd — a total nobody. It was a wonder someone even remembered him. Jess probably knew him because she was basically a walking F******k but for us, mere mortals, I doubted we would remember him even after graduation.

“Why did you do that?” Mey’s face betrayed her soft voice. It must be hard for her to take this all in. She’d never dated anyone, and the only couple she’d found cute was Jess and Colton, and that was because they’d never made out in public; something that was against Chinese etiquette or whatever her parents had taught her. Ashton and I had never made out in public either, but she always thought our relationship was a little unhealthy because we were on and off like a lamp switch while Jess and Colton were going steady and had never broken up before.

I’d always told her relationships weren’t