The Nerd's Playbook
“I mean… it is mine. I wrote it. It’s just addressed to you.”
“Oh,” he said. Then, after a pause, “Mind if I read it here?”
There it was. My death sentence.
“Yes,” I said, because apparently I had lost all survival instincts.
He read silently, thank God. My heart pounded so hard I thought he could hear it. When he finished, he folded the letter carefully.
“I’m… out of words,” he said.
“Funny,” I said. “I used all of mine.”
He smiled sadly. “You’re a really lovely girl, Annalise. But I already have a girlfriend.”
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