Tyler Thud. Thud. Thud. “He can’t be nice to girls like…” Thud. “Girls like me can’t be happy, right?” Thud. “I also don’t like the way I am…but there’s nothing I can do about it.” Thud. “Why do you hate me so much?” THUD. Smash! And there went my reading lamp and my Xbox. Still, I didn’t get off my ass to check the damage because whatever I’d just broken probably didn’t come close to what I felt sitting in my chest. I should have let it go. I knew I should have let it go. But somehow I’d chosen to shove down every common sense I still had and walked up to her in the hallway. And that…that had happened. “f**k, Tyler,” I sighed, running my hand through my hair. Because this was different. This wasn’t Sydney Walker yelling at me in her kitchen or challenging me in cla

