WHEN WE WERE US

I'S

ily on my heart, and it's causing my heart to ache. Certainly

you here acting s

time I scolded myself this way

and then walk out l

appy we made it in together. My

ri Moore,

et along Lo," Dylan sa

called my name that way. I suddenly grew a liking

ee outside for a c

time. He just

ke he was waiting for me to find him. He nods his head to the left, a gesture I

ite wine on a tray, and t

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me. "I couldn't find you anymore after catching a glimpse of you so I thoug

to hold in the question strug

he job. You truly deser

say to expres

ink you will like i

ns to make me not like it

tions when he asked me the question. But I

t

thing wrong?"

t few seconds as I wasn't

u kiss me t

t oh well, we can flow with this. I ha

minutes. He stood before me s

ber?" Etha

ber you softly pulling my face close to

sounded like I was trying to

t give you any z3 things turned out. I'm

ed in at the reunion dinner. The one he had on when he told me he

Beep!

ting phones calls

nk you got a message as well," Ethan sa

our high school want with me? Oh well, it see

u be att

n as

ssage requesting my presence, as well as Ethan

ill you be going?"

to," I

ou say we go toge

wants to say yes to his suggestion because that will mean m

ember my way around as it's been so long, I

fect excuse to give myself f

e. GPS exists for a reason."

osts," Dylan screams to me, standing at a dis

the air just to let him kn

nesday, by 9 am, please don't be late," I say i

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as the barista?" Shirley a

do you seem happy

; something that I have, over time, come to discover i

than," she adds. "I have no problem about you spending time and being in the same space as Ethan, but then, E

is afraid of. It's all in the past now. I have healed

I will be fine, and I will

but oh well, Café 24 didn't consider me wor

know what to say; if I stayed in the conversatio

ess," Shirley says as she folds the l

e a 2-day and 1-

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towards his car. "Can you please tell me what the time is,

vite we received, the event doesn't begin until 4 pm. Getting to Everly High from Chestnut will take us about 5

say in confidence to Ethan,

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hatterbox on the way, but not even a single word came out of his mouth. At

s a mix-up somewhere." The rece

onversation with the receptionist, but the second I heard h

oing on?"

ut I think we might have

nravel what had truly transpired the other ni

happened?"

erved a couple's suite for us as opposed to single r

wild fantasy they must have to think I,

ome around with our kids?" I ask just to be petty. "

up with it. We are barely even going to be in it as w

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checked int

ow you don't want anything to do with me, and the earlie

as every right to feel the way he currently does. If I were to be in his shoes, if the role

to the news of sharing a room with him will be int

but there was just something about my reaction that gives o

I do not think I had put

truly, I sounded like being aroun