Chapter Thirty-Eight

So don't call me baby

Unless you mean it

And don't tell me you need me

If you don't believe it

So let me know the truth

Before I dive right into you

— Ed Sheeran, Dive

Tyler

I was not, in any way, a fancy guy. I did not have the flamboyant overbearing or luxury taste. But when I imagined my first date with the girl I actually like, I never imagined it would be in a designer booth surrounded by wedding gowns.

Even for someone who didn't plan to marry anytime soon, it still crept the hell out of me. Yet I was bearing it; I shoved the unpleasant feeling back to the pit where it first came out.

Man up, Ty. <