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Chapter 12

Chapter 12

The celebration was intimate just family and close friends from high school. Still, the grand ballroom felt overwhelming.

Everyone’s eyes widened when they saw me there, like they’d seen a ghost. I could almost hear their thoughts: “What’s she doing here after everything?”

I just smiled politely and made small talk, playing dumb. But you couldn’t miss their not–so–subtle glances, the whispered conversations that stopped when I walked by. Four years of high school had taught me exactly what gossip looked like.

air. That’s when I heard voices from around the corner where

was done with you after the whole Madison thing at the party. Now she’s crawling back?”

entitled – a sound I’d never heard

really think she’d walk away after all these years? She doesn’t know how to

know, man,” his friend said. “Brooklyn’s pretty great. All those years together, the way she’d drop everything for you… most guys would kill

dream girl – that’s

a moment. When he spoke, his voice

totally devoted. But it feels like settling, you know? I’m eighteen – who wants to be tied down to their high school girlfriend forever? That’s

punched his arm. “You’re such an

away silently,

floor.

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