I hated that she could hear my heartbeat’s elevated tempo.
I spoke with Arianna and Desi for a bit. We’d all attended her wedding just after Christmas. Blake hadn’t shown up then, either. Now I knew how it felt.
Desi was already expecting her firstborn.
She seemed happy. I wished I could just magically jump into the future to be her age and not worry about any of this. To be as happy as she was.
Sammy reached me again and we slipped out to my treehouse.
My father started to speak over the mic. The evening was going to begin, even if Blake wasn’t here yet.
“Seriously?” she asked.
“It’s okay, Sammy, really,” I said as I desperately tried to push away the tears.
What is keeping him so long?
“It’s not okay. Elena, he is a douchebag and if he doesn’t show, I hope you never speak to him
