COLEEN It was weird how quickly things could start feeling normal again. Well, I don’t think normal is the right word but I don’t think anything between me and Hayden had ever felt normal. Hayden and I had gone from talking like strangers to fighting like exes to sitting across from each other in a grimy diner like we belonged there. And now? Now we texted each other frequently as if we were some old married couple. We didn’t talk about anything serious most of the time. Our texts were usually short messages about our day. Sometimes, we’ll send stupid things like memes to each other and we’ll laugh at the hilarity of it. He was also weirdly concerned if I was eating enough. Hayden often teased me that I forgot to eat especially when I was studying and I usually laughed because he was

