Dumped because he had HER back
The sterile scent of the used bookstore, usually comforting balm, did little to soothe the raw ache in my chest. Chloe and I had spent the better part of the afternoon sifting through dusty tomes, a desperate, perhaps even futile, attempt to distract me from the gnawing void left by the farmer's market encounter. But even amidst the forgotten stories bound in leather and paper, my mind kept returning to Earnest's vacant eyes, Victoria’s triumphant smirk. It was a loop I couldn’t break, a song of sorrow I couldn’t tune out. My new resolve, the hard-won clarity of purpose, felt fragile, like a thin sheet of ice over a deep, dark abyss.
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