Hillary
I don’t know what came over Ben. but I can’t have the guts to be sad even though I want to. I know Jake cheated, but I’ve already betrayed him in the worst way possible, and that’s enough. We’re already even.
Now we can go on with our lives, put the past behind us, and hope it stays there.
I fill my mouth with more waffles, hoping it’ll push down the lump in my throat again and again, but it doesn’t help.
I mean, I’m not mad—I just want to know why he called it off.
Is it because of Jake?
Or did his Arianna suddenly rise from the dead, and now he dumps me and runs back to her?
Wow.
That must be the truth.
I knew I was being used, what was I expecting?
Jake taps me, pulling me away from my thoughts.
“So, I was thinking we could build something like this in the backyard o
