Chapter 45: Gia

I'm not sure what I was thinking when I agreed to this.

All right...yes, I do.

I'd been thinking that I had no business getting involved with a guy who is twenty years old and still in college. Someone who is leaving town in a few months and won't be looking back once he makes it to the NFL.

When I found Tyler standing in the doorway of my classroom, I had a moment of weakness and thought-why not? Maybe I need to give our relationship one last shot. We certainly weren't perfect, but I did love him. And Tyler is a good man.

I could do a lot worse.

That's exactly what my thought process had been forty minutes ago. It's also how I ended up in a restaurant, having dinner with Tyler. But somewhere in those forty minutes from when I saw him at my door to us sitting at a table and waiting for our dinner to arrive, I realize deep down that it will never work.

Now that I'm here, and see the hopeful expression written across his earnest face as he tells me about all the ways he'll change i