Carl I told myself I wasn’t watching her, but I was watching every goddamn move she made since she stepped into my apartment, and she wasn’t making it easy for me either. I had seen the tears in her eyes when she saw me kissing Nora, I thought perhaps she was shocked for witnessing such scene, but it didn’t look like it after she made the statement while grabbing a drink from the fridge. I have been weakened by all her deliberate act. I told myself over and over again that she is just a pretty girl trying to stir s**t, perhaps she is playing childish drama to push boundaries, play grown-up just to get back at me for what she had seen. But Riley wasn’t a child anymore, and every time she walked past me in those little skirts, or whispered something that made my fist clench, I didn’t see

