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It could have changed our future, but I didn’t. Instead, I watched him leave. My pain overruling our reality. In fact, it won in the end. I did the only thing that made sense to me in a moment purely driven by my chaotic emotions.
I went to look for Julian, finding him downstairs by the bar. A date by his side. I couldn’t believe he had the balls to bring someone with him. Of course, she was gorgeous.
Long blonde hair.
Legs for days.
A rack the size of my head.
She was dressed in a tight skirt and bodysuit, emphasizing her perfect figure. I’d never felt more like a child than I did when he reached around her waist and kissed her. The truth of who he was staring me right in the face. With his lips still on her mouth, he locked eyes with me for a minute as though he felt my presence from across the crowded room.
Maybe he felt my pain.
I didn’t look at her at all, not for one second. However, I was the first to break our connection. If I didn’t, I would have blown up on him in front of everyone.
Our family.
My parents.
Christian.
The party went off without a hitch. Well into the night, there were still hundreds of people dancing, drinking, socializing. I tried to have fun, but my eyes kept wandering toward Julian and his date.
He was caressing her face.
Whispering things in her ear.
Kissing her lips.
Holding her close to him.
He was trying to prove a point, and I couldn’t fathom the reason for his actions, so I left. I went out into the woods behind our house, needing air, needing space, needing to break the fuck down.
“What an asshole!” I shouted into the forest, kicking a rock, except it wasn’t a rock. It was a stone rooted into the ground. “Ow!” My foot instantly started aching, and I fell to the dirt. “Great, now my dress is ruined too.” I took off my heel—the nail of my big toe had sliced in half, and blood was oozing off my skin.
“Shit, kid.”
His voice caught in the wind, and my furious glare met his concerned expression. “Get away from me.”
He stopped dead in his tracks.
“Go back inside to whatever girl you’re sleeping with tonight.”
“Do you think if she mattered to me, I’d be out here for you?”
Unable to resist, I sassed, “Two girls at once last week, huh? Must have been quite a night for you.”
He gripped onto the back of his neck, bowing his head.
“I can’t believe you brought a date to my birthday party after you stole my first kiss! Well, guess what? I want it back!”
“If I could, I would.”
Talk about a dagger to my heart.
“I had no business stealing that from you.”
His expression quickly turned desolate, and I lashed out, “I thought you said I was your number one girl? If you treat me like this, I can’t imagine how you treat all the other women you sleep with.”
