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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.

heard voices from around the corner

she was done with you after the whole

sound I’d never heard

days – you really think she’d walk away

know, man,” his friend said. “Brooklyn’s pretty great. All those years together, the way she’d drop

girl – that’s rough.

for a moment. When he spoke, his voice was

it feels like settling, you know? I’m eighteen – who wants to be tied down to their high school girlfriend forever? That’s such a cliché. I want to experience college

punched his arm. “You’re such

slipped away silently, my designer sneakers soundless on the marble

floor.

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