Chapter 54

ELLIE

It had to be that he had gotten up on the wrong side of his bed. At one point, I wasn't sure I was still talking to the same guy I had met in the locker room that had been all over me.

“What do you mean, Troy?” I asked as I still wasn't believing my ears. It was awful that I was about to begin my day with a reason to shed tears. But I held my resolve somehow.

“I meant that we're not meant to be… together or seeing each other again.” Troy was stuttering at that point as he seemed to lack the words to put me away.

“Are you kidding me now?” I asked, trying my best to keep my emotions from forcing me to create a scene there in front of everyone. “What did I do wrong?”

“You didn't do anything wrong, Ellie.” He said, tiredly as though he was being tired out by the very fact that he was having that conversation. “You're not the problem here, it's just me.”

“Talk to me, Troy. What's going on?” I was desperate to hear what he had to say, and what his inner struggles were.

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