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Trihn’s feet carried her to the Petersons’. She found Ian in his room on his computer. Before she could get a word out, she broke down into sobs.
“What? What happened?” He reached for her and pulled her onto his lap. “Trihn, are you all right? Tell me what happened!”
“She…chose…him…over me,” Trihn said between hiccuping tears.
She wrapped her arms around his neck and let her tears stain his polo. Words were failing her as her heart shattered into as many pieces as there were stars in the night sky.
“She did what?”
Trihn sniffed a few times before the tears subsided enough for her to have a coherent conversation. “They talked it out when we were gone, and she believed all his lies. He told her that he wasn’t serious with her until she invited him on vacation, and then he broke up w
