I had to get out of there. I had to get away from Nick. Being too close to him gave me mixed signals. I’m not sure what I was feeling, but I knew enough to know that it was wrong. Nick was able to manipulate people, and he was manipulating me. I was too blind to see it. This sweet and respectable act wouldn’t last. One day I would inevitably push him too far, and it would go back to the same s**t it was before, only worse. Nick ran outside after me, not expecting me to run off like that. I wasn’t trying to escape him. Just a few minutes was all that I needed. It was still raining outside, even more heavily now than before. Thankfully I managed to lose Nick, running into a nearby park. No one was here, seeing as how it was raining. The peace was riveting. As the wat