Allie ran past the cars in the large parking lot. She had nowhere to go, though she didn’t realize that until she reached the street. Justin was her ride home, except he couldn’t be, not after she’d broken his heart and shredded the pieces in front of their circle of friends, their friends’ friends, their families, and people she didn’t even know but who would remember her always as the woman who turned that poor guy down.
Should I have said yes? But she would have had to follow up later with a no and explain it to everyone over and over again, as would he. It would have just made it worse. Why didn’t he tell me he was thinking of marriage?
Should I have said yes?Why didn’t he tell me he was thinking of marriage?Allie stopped. She’d walked two blocks with no thought of where she was goin
