NICOLE As soon as I’m standing close enough to him, Dan takes my arm and starts dragging me away from the main area. I let him just because I don’t want him to cause the scene he threatened me with, but his grip is going to leave bruises. I stare at the back of his head and imagine myself slapping him as hard as I can for putting me through this. How many times do we need to talk about this? Doesn’t he understand the whole point of a breakup? At first, I felt sorry for him because I felt like I was the one who wronged him by surprising him with a breakup when there was nothing truly wrong about our relationship. I was just tired of how possessive and jealous he was. Otherwise, he was a pretty solid guy. But maybe that was a red flag in itself. Look what he’s doing to me now! He

