When Best Friends Kiss
“What a coward! Who breaks up via text?”
I was frozen, re-reading the message over and over while letting humiliation wash over me in cold, relentless waves. My steady boyfriend of two years had just ended things, and in his exact words, the reason was: ‘This whole thing between us has gotten boring, Rory. I need some excitement in my life.’
My eyes burned, blinking back the tears threatening to fall as my older sister put an arm around my shoulders and sat beside me at the kitchen table, setting the phone down.