Chapter 21
I drove back across to my side of town wondering how in the world I would get over what had happened. It hurt. To hear him laugh at the jokes he laughed at. It wasn’t just that he’d laughed. It was that he didn’t care that those words would hurt me. That I wasn’t the first thing on his mind.
My life was never going to be the same. After almost two months of sharing my life with someone, I felt like I didn’t know how to go back. How to be alone again. My friends were great, but there was only so much I could share with my friends. There were only so many things we could talk about. Xander was the man who allowed me to be myself. And he was the one who took that away.
When I pulled up in front of my house I sat there, listening to the rest of the song on the radio, not ready to
