The Revenge Plan
“Conversation. But you don’t have to be alone if you don’t want to be.”
“I don’t,” I said quickly, more quickly than I knew I should’ve answered. With an apologetic cringe, I added, “Sorry. I know I should just suck it up and move on, but my brain feels as if it’s on speed. So right now, I’ll take any kind of distraction I can get to just…not think. And besides, your conversational skills aren’t lacking at all.”
It might take a crowbar to pry the words out of him, but once he talked, I actually liked what he had to say.