A/N: Listen to the song Before You Go by Lewis Capaldi on loop for amplified feels. That's what I was listening to when I wrote this episode.
~Maeve~
Surprisingly, I am not shaking as I make my way out of the bathroom, into the hallway and then the living room. There is so much pain inside me that I want to curl into a ball and bawl my eyes out, but Dylan’s house is not the place I want to be found breaking down at, and certainly not on his birthday. I have never been the kind of woman, to hang on to man, not any man, especially not to a man who has very clearly expressed his lack of interest in me. Rejection stings and begins to crackle within me, steadily spreading like a wildfire that’s burning ever cell it torches, making everything hurt.
I don’t what I had been trying to pro
