MAX’S POV I felt like my worst nightmare was unfolding right before my eyes. What Lilly was doing to me right now didn’t feel any different from being rejected by her. I felt like she was rejecting me because of who I was. This was something that I had been anticipating for such a long time, but a part of me never actually believed that she would leave me. I didn’t want her to leave me, I loved her, and it was so frustrating to know that she couldn’t understand that. It was ironic that she had been professing her love for me for such a long time, only to bail out on me when I needed her the most. Where was all the love that she claimed to have for me now that I needed her? Did she not realize that everything she was doing and saying was in contradiction, to what she was doing? If she re

