COLEEN
I told myself I wouldn’t cry.
I’d repeated that line like a mantra since I left the music room.
Not in public, not in front of Mark, not when Alicia made that offhand joke about my resting b***h face, and especially not when Hayden looked at me like he was trying to solve a puzzle he didn’t have all the pieces to.
But the thing about bottling things up is that eventually, the pressure makes you shake like you were about to explode.
And I was shaking.
I didn’t want him to see me like this and I hated how much I still left her affect me until this day.
Why couldn’t I just be a cold-hearted b***h who didn’t give a damn about anyone or anything. I knew for sure that my life would have been so much easier if I was that way.
Which was exactly why I couldn’t stop staring at his con
