Max walked in to find Andrew looking like a shadow of his former self, just slumped on the couch, staring blankly as if the world around him had ceased to exist.

Meanwhile, Jaired, that goofball, was casually cracking open a beer right next to him.

"Hey, man. It'll be alright. Try to shake it off."

Over the past few days, Jaired had done some digging and discovered that Aubree was now seeing some 18-year-old kid.

Eighteen? Seriously?

Aubree was seven years older than him.

"Andrew, come on, pull yourself together. Even if those two have got something going on, who's to say this Matthew kid won't wake up one day and call it quits? Maybe they're just testing the waters." Andrew's lips quivered, and suddenly, he buried his face in his hands, his shoulders shaking slightly.

He didn't want Jaired and Max to see him like this.

He felt like he had brought this upon himself.

Jaired glanced over at Max, lost for words.

Max felt helpless too. When it came to affairs of the heart, there was only so much an outsider could do.

He gave Andrew's shoulder a reassuring pat.

Back when Andrew had taken Aubree for granted, Max had a feeling this day would come.

coming full circle. The pain Aubree felt because of him was now his to

had a good feeling

about Aubree, had asked him to look into Matthew's

at eighteen, Matthew had life

family, which was something

pushback from Casey and Pauline. Their love for their son was clear in

he wasn't someone you could easily

that kept butting into his relationship with Aubree. Desiree couldn't stand Aubree, and the rest of the family

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the wounds his family had caused. Every

an only child,

family's eye. He couldn't bring himself to cut ties with them for Aubree without

he didn't lose. But when it came to family, he

a bit of sense would know

a man's whole family was against you, marrying into that family was

no future for

as Jaired suggested, something went wrong

drink. He just sat there,

buddy struggle with love, trudging through the messy world of romance,

was a painful game he

most of the

leave either, idly twirling

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