Chapter 7

Less than thirty minutes after Aiden left, Maya sent me a screenshot.

It was Madison’s Instagram post: “Perfect morning Say you’re hungry and your crush magically appears with breakfast. I think this might be turning into something real… ?”

The photo showed the exact same box of chocolate croissants from my kitchen table.

I didn’t reply.

Just silently wiped my tears and knelt down to clean up the spilled boba tea. After scrubbing forever, I realized with frustration that the stain had soaked deep into the wool carpet fibers. It wasn’t coming out.

In a burst of anger, I rolled up the entire carpet and threw it away. It was the one Aiden and his parents had spent an entire afternoon picking out in Nepal and carried back as a gift anyway.

While I was at it, I gathered everything Aiden had left at my house, plus every gift he’d ever given me. Even all our photos together – from prom pictures to casual selfies – went into garbage bags.

It took all day to pack up and throw away six years of memories. Not like he’d want any of this stuff

anyway.

I didn’t hear from him for days. Things must be going well with

like

time, I

no point anymore.

blocked him on everything – Instagram, Snapchat, texts, calls. Changed my

social media accounts.

parents who were away on business. Told them I wanted to spend the

plan was to stay there until fall, then head straight to Stanford with Maya.

I’d switched schools.

I could perfectly avoid any chance of running

on the phone: “Ooh, planning a romantic summer getaway with Aiden?”

not wanting to explain. Just said I missed Aunt

Love.

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Chapter 7

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