LEILA
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I sat down as she sat beside me, "Okay. So you had s*x with him.
It happened. You're not a horrible person because of it, L. You're hurting, and sometimes people do messy, complicated, explosive things when they're hurting and when they're faced with the source of their pain and desire."
"Yes, I am!" I insisted, pulling my hands away and wrapping my arms around myself, a desperate attempt to hold myself together, to contain the storm raging within me.
"He has someone! He has Elena! And I just I let myself go there. I let him… I let myself want him. After everything. After being so broken, so messed up from before… I just jumped right into the same disaster. A full-blown, grade-A catastrophe that is going to blow up in my face."
"Leila. Look at me." Sophia gently turned m
