(Olivia)
It was hard for me to come to terms with what Derek did. Words can't explain how I feel about it. I know that he was obsessed with me, in love but he hadn't done anything for me not to trust him.
But, what Madeline said had me second-guessing everything. I wasn't going to give up on us, though, because I knew that Derek would never hurt me. But knowing that he had done something like that had made me trust him a little less.
We cleaned up and moved to the bedroom. I could tell that he was still tense, his shoulders rigid as we sat down on the bed.
I didn’t know what to say, and the silence between us felt thick, like something we couldn’t escape. I wanted to believe that we could just move on from this, that things would go back to how they were before, but it wasn’t that sim
