Jo
JoEllie fiddled with her wooden skewer, not managing to look me in the eye. “Jo… It was just a kiss. People kiss. It doesn’t have to mean anything. We don’t have to make a big deal out of it.”
Her words cut through me like glass and I couldn’t stop myself. “But that’s the problem, it means something to me.”
It wasn’t until Ellie’s eyes widened that I realised what I’d just confessed.
She looked at me, trying to form words but only managed a sigh. “Oh.”
“I shouldn’t have said that. Forget I said that.”
“Jo…” The sympathy in her voice told me everything I needed to know.
“Please forget I said that.” I stared at a little patch of grass pushing through the cement, refusing to look at her. Unrequited love was already painful enough, I didn’t need rejection added on top of it.
She tos
