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We fought. We argued a lot.
Over nothing.
Over everything.
I pushed her and pushed her and pushed her and yet I still couldn’t say what I truly needed to. The truth.
“Ask me to stay. Please, just fucking ask me to stay.”
Pride was a very powerful thing, especially for a man like me.
“So, I hear Lucas and Jacob got accepted into Ohio State,” Aubrey coaxed as we sat on a blanket at the beach. She was pressed under the nook of my arm, her head lying on my shoulder, snuggled in just the way she loved.
“Mmm hmm,” I simply replied, trying to avoid another argument with her.
“When were you going to tell me that you got accepted, too?”
“Since when do you care where I go?” I retorted back at her.
She tried to pull away from me, but I held her tighter.
“Can we just sit here and enjoy the evening, Bree?”
I started to call her Bree more often, suga’ and darlin’ were few and far between. She didn’t say anything, but she didn’t have to.
“Do you want me to go to Ohio State?”
“I want you to go wherever you want. I’ve told you—”
“No shit, I have it fucking memorized now,” I snapped.
She sighed and I glanced at her. “I’m sorry, okay?” I kissed the top of her head.
“I figured you wanted to be with your boys, Dylan. That’s all. I mean you’ve never left this town. Ohio State seems like a great opportunity for you to explore.”
“Explore what exactly? What do you think I’m missin’ out on that I need to see, Bree?”
She shrugged only pissing me off further. She did that a lot, started an argument and would never finish it, leaving me to feel like the asshole for wanting to.
“What is going on in that beautiful mind of yours?”
She peeked up at me with defeat already appearing in her eyes.
“What do you want to do with your life, Dylan? You graduate in a few months and you’ve already missed several deadlines from your college acceptance letters. What are you waiting for?”
“Maybe I want to stay here. Would that be so bad?” I finally admitted.
“That’s not what you want,” she bit in a tone I didn’t appreciate.
I roughly pulled my arm away, missing her warmth immediately.
“Jesus Christ, Bree, enough with the vague responses. I’m sick of this shit.”
She stood, hovering above me. I placed my arms on my knees, looking out at the water.
“Just go! Go to Ohio State! That’s what you want. Don’t stay here for me! You know you don’t want to.”
Her bare feet kicked around the sand nervously, as her eyes looked everywhere but at me.
