18 Julia We weren’t fine. Or at least…I wasn’t fine. Maggie made my skin crawl. Seeing her stupid, flawless face made me go berserk. And, for the last two years, I’d believed that Austin had used me for s*x while Maggie was out of town. If he couldn’t get it from his f**k buddy, why not make a new one when she was gone? Easy enough. I’d been crushed. It was the first time I had opened my heart since I left Ohio and all my baggage. For a long time, I’d never thought I’d be interested in letting someone else in. Then, Austin had happened. And then Maggie. It hurt my head to think about what he had revealed to me in the alleyway. Why wouldn’t he have just broken up with me if he didn’t want to fall for me? Why had he let me believe that he and Maggie were together? In my experience, i

