Grandpa gave me an earful when I got home that day. I took all of it and didn't dare say a word back.
But after that, Ethan really was gone from my life.
To get him out of my head, I kept myself as busy as I could — every single day.
Classes, my part-time job, weekends out on the road going places.
Like I was trying to prove to somebody that I could get along just fine without Ethan. And it turned out I could.
The day before summer break, my roommates dragged me to some well-known place in Aldridge.
The way they put it, we wouldn't see each other for two months, so this was our big send-off dinner.
The wording made me laugh, and I went along with it.
The second we walked in, it was all gaudy gold everywhere, and I had a bad feeling my wallet was about to take a hit.
One of my room
