Chapter Nineteen

Obsessed?

I was left there, staring at her back and the hem of her pink sundress flowing behind her. That was six years of friendship walking away from me. Six years of nothing.

Six years of… what the fuck was I thinking?

I realized that everybody in the corridor was now staring at me. But the embarrassment I felt was nothing compared to the sting of Jen’s words. It was nothing compared to the anger that was threatening to burst out of me.

Shit! This is what I get after everything I did for her?

Obsessed? Did Jen think I wanted more than friendship from her? Is that what everybody thinks?

I turned around toward the exit. I could feel eyes following me. I could hear the buzzing sound as they started to gossip.

Who the fuck cares?

No matter what they say or do, they could not make this day any worse than it already was.

When I parked in front of my house, I noticed a car parked across the street. There were two guys sitting inside. They looked at me for a brief moment and then they roll