Nicole tried to keep her tone light as she spoke, "Yeah, Yeah," but it was hard to ignore how tense the room was. She went on, "I was just having a little chat with my friend."
Tyler didn't say anything back. With a distant look on his face, he just nodded, making it look like he wasn't fully present with her.
Nicole knew that something wasn't quite right. He looked like he was lost in his own thoughts, and she thought about what might be making him seem so unfocused.
How did things turn out?
Tyler's thoughts were so entwined that they kept pulling him under, and his mind was miles away all the time.
He wasn't ready to accept how much the text message from Julie affected him, but it did. It took him back to a place he thought he had left behind.
He had managed to persuade himself th
