‘No’
I read the message with a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes.
I had been so caught up in making my big important decision that I had forgotten about the fact Blake might not want to come over and see me.
I had asked him if he could come over because I was going to tell him to wait under my window, then throw all the stupid notes out so that they rained down on him and tell him that I made a mistake when I pushed him away and… now I thought about it it was really stupid and melodramatic. It was definitely not a bad thing that he had said no, even if it did hurt to read.
And it was just that one word, too.
No.
Not ‘can’t sorry :(’ or ‘maybe later’. Plain old unmistakable, unambiguous ‘no’.
“Victoria?”
I shoved my phone in my pocket as I swiveled around to see Brooke in the
