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.

know, people kept sending

asking why I wasn’t in Aspen with Aiden.

questions, making vague excuses about family

Maya straight–up called Aiden a player, everyone else just gave me these knowing looks, like they were afraid to say what they were

photo he posted, he and

spot beside him – it had been mine for years.

kept my face neutral, but my heart

first real love, someone I’d genuinely cared about

let myself break down sometimes, feeling the unfairness of

remember his cruel words and mentally slap myself.

have some self–respect. Don’t make yourself even more pathetic.”

Get through withdrawal. Things would get

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