A/N: Tyler thinks he's so smooth... (insert eye roll here)
Chapter Song: "Don't Give Up on Me" by Andy Grammer
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I knew it was him standing outside my door. My body could feel it, and while my heart wanted him to walk in and kiss me and tell me that I was wrong, my brain retaliated by reminding me I was a prisoner here. In his house.
He knocked, like any decent person, which mildly surprised me. I walked to the door and held my hand on the knob, fighting the urge to just open the door.
To just let him in.
To even just... try.
But I couldn't.
No matter how hard I had tried in the past, my silence shoved the people I loved most away. Only Carter had survived the hurricane that is me, and someday I wondered if he only did that because
