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She leans in to make her point even more. “You’re something, you know that? It was totally fine for you to be off, fucking Aaron, but as soon as you saw Beau with someone else, you flipped your lid.”
Goddamn if that wasn’t exactly what happened.
A sickness washes over me as I realize I did to Beau exactly what Aaron had done to me.
How could I be so selfish?
How could Aaron have been so selfish back then?
Then, for me to act that way against Beau … I’m a horrible human being.
She takes a deep breath. “Beau and I are officially together. I don’t even know why I’m here to tell you that, but I felt you needed to know because that’s what friends do. We weren’t just drunk, making out that night. He’s my boyfriend. I hope next time you see us together, you remember that fact and the fact that you have a boyfriend of your own.”
I rub my lips together as I nod. “I know. I will.”
She turns to leave, and I stop her. “Megan.”
She pauses in her movements and faces me again.
“I’m sorry. I really am. I wish I knew what came over me, but I have no excuse.”
She just nods and walks out of my room, leaving me to cry into my sheets for what feels like the hundredth time this week.
* * *
I walk out to the front of my house when I see Aaron’s car parked next door and head over to his house.
Nerves attack my stomach so much that I feel like I’m going to throw up, but I still force myself to take every step until I’m at his front door.
I knock, and thankfully, Aaron answers instead of his mom.
The look on his face tells me everything I need to know, but I still say, “Can we talk?”
He doesn’t invite me in. Instead, he walks out and closes the door behind him as he motions to the swing on his porch.
We take a seat as I think about how to approach what I want to say, but he cuts to the chase first.
“What do you want, Sadie?”
Wow, I knew he was mad, but I truly had no idea just how mad he was until this moment, hearing his tone.
“I just wanted to apologize.”
He stares off in space toward the street in front of us. “Do you like him?”
I reach for his hand, but he pushes me away.
It takes everything in my power to not lose it all over again, so I take a deep breath, trying to steady my thoughts.
“I don’t know what all of that was, I promise,” I finally say.
He doesn’t look at me, but when I place my hand on his knee, I’m thankful that he doesn’t remove it.
“I drank a lot that night, and I just saw them and …” I pause, gathering my thoughts. “I just reacted in a way that still makes no sense to me.”
He finally looks at me. “But you did react that way. So, the question is, why?”
I see his walls coming down, so I get closer. “I wish I knew why. I love you, Aaron. I’ve always loved you. You’re my firefly boy.”
