Chapter 9

Chapter 9

During my time with family in Boston, I put on a good show of being happy.

I kept myself deliberately busy, filling every hour with activities, leaving no empty spaces for unwanted thoughts.

And no, I didn’t unblock Aiden like he’d demanded.

Still, Maya and other friends kept sending me updates about him.

Apparently, Aiden and his friends spent days in Aspen. For some reason, he started posting constantly on Instagram – totally unlike the guy who’d go months without a single post.

Sometimes it was videos of him carving down black diamond runs, sometimes lavish dinners and all–night parties, but mostly group photos of everyone goofing around in the snow, all smiles and inside jokes.

to know, people kept sending me

I wasn’t in

vague excuses about

else just gave me these knowing looks, like they were afraid to say what

why. In every group photo he posted, he and Madison were

it had been

posts, I kept my face

someone I’d genuinely cared about for so, so

I’d let myself break down sometimes, feeling the

his cruel words and mentally slap

repeat: “Brooklyn, have some self–respect. Don’t make yourself

on. Get through withdrawal.

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