"For someone who claims to be over their ex, you sure do have a lot of pictures of him," he mumbles as he continues to absorb my board. He plucks certain pictures and grabs the corners of others. I watch him squint as he looks at the smaller polaroid camera printouts. "In addition to being my boyfriend, he was one of my best friends," I tell Asa, who doesn't reply. "Besides, my picture board would look empty without those photos." "Do you still talk to him?" he wonders, "other than when he texted you on your birthday?" "I didn't even text him back that time...wait, who told you about that?" I blurt when I realize I didn't tell him myself. I told Maya and Aaliyah and then deleted the conversation. "Maya," he exposes his source carelessly. I'm not surprised at all and instead of getting

