(Chase)
I saw her. Skating.
She was laughing. Like nothing ever happened. Like she didn’t hate the ground I walked on. Like I didn’t exist.
But I did. I was right there, watching. Watching her glide across the ice with Jaxon, like she belonged next to him. She didn’t. She never did.
That smile on her face made my chest ache. She used to look at me like that once. Brief. Stupid. But it was there.
Now she gives it to him?
I leaned back against the wall, arms crossed. No one noticed me. I preferred it that way. Gave me more time to stare. More time to think.
Her body moved like it used to. Maybe even better. She wasn’t the same girl. Not really. She was something else now. And yeah, I noticed.
The way her jeans hugged her legs. Her waist. That hoodie barely hid the curve of her back w
