Veronica, March 2000
"How's Sam?" Penny asked me. Have you ever watched a house of cards come tumbling down? Something you've been building up for so long be destroyed in seconds? That was what it felt like at the mere mention of his name.
"We broke up" Even admitting it out loud to someone who wasn't there when it happened was like reliving the knife to the chest all over again. I didn't want to see her pitying eyes or have her give me the 'I'm sorry' line that came from everyone else who had found out, so I decided to sidestep it before she could. "I'm good though, never better, just focusing on myself right now and looking forward to whatever uni throws at us"
"I love your outlook," Penny says, not a shred of pity in sight and all that dread that I was feeling just melted away.
"It
