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I grimaced.
“So, you’re afraid of getting hurt. Sure, I get that. But, my God, if you want the best piece of fruit, you gotta go out on a limb, girl.”
I winced. “Did you seriously just say that? It seems…beneath you.”
“You’re deflecting. Stop. Or I’ll give you another dozen analogies.”
I held my hands over my ears. “Dear God, no. Please.”
Naomi laughed again, shaking her head. “So, you’re telling me that you two didn’t talk at all while he was overseas?”
“No. I mean, he tried, but I didn’t reciprocate.”
“Reciprocate what?”
“He called me a bunch of times, but I made my parents send it to the answering machine. And he wrote me a stack of letters. I have them all, but I haven’t read them.”
“Wait, what? Not even one letter?”
“Nope. Not one.”
“So, let me get this straight.” She cleared her throat. “The boy wrote you letters…plural…and you didn’t read them? What, were you just too busy? What the hell?”
Feeling surprised, and a tiny bit defensive, I licked my lips. “I couldn’t.”
“But you kept them, right?”
“Yeah, they’re in my closet. At home.”
“You two are made for each other; don’t you get it? You and the letters, him and his pathetic, little bakery bag.”
“It’s not the same thing.”
“Isn’t it, though?”
She rendered me speechless. I had no idea how to respond.
“I don’t know how you had that kind of self-control. I would have ripped those bad boys open the second I pulled them out of the mailbox. I wouldn’t have even made it up my driveway.”
“I couldn’t do it. I just…I knew it would only make me miss him more. Or worse yet, we’d get back together and do this long-distance thing, which everyone knows doesn’t work.”
“I’d do long-distance with Ben. I don’t give a rat’s ass what the failure rate is, or whatever. He’s the one.”
“Maybe Wyatt isn’t the one for me.”
“Remember earlier when I mentioned my bullshit detector?”
“I thought you were the bullshit detector,” I said, trying to drag her away from a consistent thought by jumbling her words. She narrowed her eyes at me, knowing exactly what I was attempting to do.
“You’re lying through your teeth. Total bullshit, my friend.”
“Honestly, what would I even say to him now? When he walked me home last weekend, it was so freaking awkward. Like, I don’t even know if he’s still interested me.”
“Riiiiiiight.” Naomi rolled her eyes dramatically and crossed her arms, looking unimpressed. “The boy who said he’d wait forever is suddenly over you because of an awkward stroll. Sure, that sounds reasonable.”
“You’re kind of…”
“What?” Naomi asked, her eyes wide as she pinched her brows together. “Infuriating? Dramatic?”
