Playing Second Fiddle
During these two years, our relationship never surpassed anything platonic, and she gave me everything except her love.
It went to the point that later on, her friends would sometimes call me 'Stu', as if me being a stand-in for Stewart was some sort of game they'd gotten addicted to playing.
One day, Evie brought up the notion of getting married.
"Wow, he really ended up bagging her after all that bootlicking, huh?"
"Is she really going to get married to that penniless nobody?"
Even I found it unbelievable, and for a moment, I wondered whether Evie had truly fallen for me.