Chapter 12“Break the f*****g thing! Take a baseball bat to my leg and put me out of my misery.”
My lips were pressed to those of the only man I’d ever loved. We were standing in the rain at the place we’d first come together, and those were the words that ran through my head, like notices on the new, scrolling school sign.
A series of melodic pings from Waz’s phone went ignored. He didn’t pull away.
“i********: notifications.” Though he did explain them. “Someone liking the post already.”
“Lots of someones.”
“You could have killed everyone involved, here.”
“It would have been worth it!”
I wondered why those were the next words to come to mind, a more recent memory, equally troubling.
“We’re getting wet.” Now, I pulled away.
Walking past the glaring headlights in the front of my ca
