“Have you heard? Sophee and Marcus are dating!”
“What? Seriously?!”
“Someone took a photo of them together in the mall! They were eating together too! Rumors say Marcus bought her expensive bags and clothes from designers!”
“First, Tyler dating that nerd girl, now Mark? Why are they slowly being taken by the most unexpected people?!”
“Sophee and Marcus looked cute together though! Look,”
People around me kept talking about that—Sophee and Mark. Sophee and Mark here; Sophee and Mark there; Sophee and Mark everywhere. It’s not that I hated the idea of Mark and my best friend dating. The repetition of hearing about it was starting to get to me. It was as if the odds were slapping me with the truth that I can’t deny. That I can never be with a guy like Marcus.
I was mentally cursing myse
