The Ruined Bride of Velvet Nights by Brick Moving Ant

Chapter 51

  • Chapter 18

  • Taplyer and Kartini bergke up the following week

  • sew tad appeared on the school Discord almost immediately.

  • didrs same dames, but the implications were crystal clear:

  • I was getuned as the obsessive ex who couldn’t let go, who deliberately sabotaged his relationship with Katherine, who used my body to manipulate fum back into my life.

  • Through everyone was ordered to by initials, it was painfully obvious who was being discussed.

  • The post cluded eerily specific details about past interactions with Zephyr.

  • Katherine’s digital fingerprints were all over it.

  • I read the entire thread during lunch and felt… nothing.

  • Tavas out, letting go of someone becomes surprisingly easy once you actually decide to do it.

  • When you finally peel someone else’s name off your heart, you discover your own voice had been there all along

  • I’d reclaimed nyself, and that was worth more than any relationship.

  • During AP Cals, a girl 1 barely knew passed me a note asking if it was true I’d “stolen Z back from K.”

  • Fed up with the high school drama, I made a public post that evening:

  • Phoebe. [Going offline to focus on finals and college prep. Stop tagging me. If you can solve this problem, maybe then we can discuss my personal life]

  • the hardest differential equation from last year’s national competition.

  • calling me everything from “ice cold” to “academic

  • with a

  • of

  • 43.6%

  • Chapter 13

  • partner pass the

  • definitely seen this before. Doesn’t count)

  • me your hardest problem then.

  • Me: [–]

  • [See you at UC

  • once rearranged

  • meant absolutely nothing to

  • closed the app without

  • his in–person

  • desk began accumulating carefully selected gifts–cherry–flavored everything, indie band merch I’d once mentioned liking, premium stationery

  • it to the

  • borrowing his friends‘ phones to

  • what was happening with Sid, sometimes

  • his nightstand, claiming

  • each number methodically.

  • typed

  • churned out a romantic narrative: after my dramatic exit, Zephyr had

  • an epiphany.

  • studying with newfound determination, working to earn a spot at UC Davis, planning

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