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The words are flowing past the filters of my mind. They're unmeasured and heavy, and tears are now pricking my eyes.
“I never meant to fall for him because I never thought he was my type, but one conversation for our group project led to another, and before I knew it, he was climbing through my window every night.” I can’t stop talking. “I’d overheard you tell Jessica that you felt like he was more of a friend than your boyfriend most of the time, and that you wondered if you would still be together if it weren’t for the sponsorships.”
Glaring at me, she grips the steering wheel so hard that the bones of her knuckles begin to show.
“If you still want to know the answer to that,” I say, “it’s no. You wouldn’t be together, because he would be with me…I’m in love with him, and before this season is over, he and I are going to be together.”
Silence.
“Is that all you have to say?” Her voice is terse.
“No. That’s it.”
“Okay,” she says. “Get the fuck out of the car.”
“No.”
“Fine.” She unbuckles her seatbelt. “I’llget out.”
She steps out and slams the door shut.
I unbuckle my seatbelt and rush after her. “Come back here, Tully!” I yell, but she’s running away.
I catch up to her at a stop sign and grab her arm, but she pushes me away.
“Let's get back to campus,” I say. “We can talk about this after you calm down.”
“Calm down?” She hisses. “You want me to calm down after all the shit you just threw on me?”
“Yes.” I keep my voice flat. “I also want you to refrain from acting like a victim.”
“Excuse me?”
“You can be upset and curse at me all you want, for as long as you want, but you're not a victim in this.”
“Areyou?”
“No one is.”
“I can assure you,Scarlett Cressida May Crane, that you’re the fucking villain in this, and I regret ever trying to reconnect with you.” She pushes my chest.Hard.
“Wait a minute…” She narrows her eyes. “Did you fuck him?”
“Tully, look.”
“Answer me.” She pushes me again. “Have you been fucking my boyfriend behind my back, too?
“That's none of your business.”
“Have you been fucking him?!” She yells. “It’s a yes or no question, sotell me. Tell me right the hell now.”
“Yes.”
“Wow.” She shakes her head. “You’re a fucking snake.”
“And you're a bitch, but I’ve never held it against you.”
“When I tell all my friends what you've done—”
