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I have to move out of Illinois and change my name.
I slide down to the floor.
This is the end.
“Heidi?” Drew asks from the other side of the door. “Can I come in?”
“No,” I say, my entire skin on fire.
He waits a moment. “Please?”
“Just go home, Drew.”
“Are you on the floor?”
I cringe. “No.”
“Yes, you are,” he says, his voice now level with mine.
“Don’t...” I bite down to stop myself from bawling. “We don’t have to talk about this. Just leave, Drew. Please...”
He taps on the door. “Heidi, please open up.”
I sigh, utterly defeated. Not sure why I’m surprised to find that Drew is the good kind of guy who breaks up with someone face-to-face.
Might as well get it over with.
I shift to the side as I reach for the doorknob. I open the door, but I stop it from opening more than an inch or two.
Drew peeks inside from his spot on the carpet and smiles. “Hey,” he says.
“Hi,” I reply.
“Are you okay?”
“Just do it, Drew,” I say.
“Do what?”
“Tell me you never want to see me again.”
“Why would I tell you that?”
I don’t answer.
“Heidi, what’s up?” he asks. “Talk to me. You’ve been acting weird since we got here.”
“I know, I just…” I open the door the rest of the way and lean against it with a sigh. No matter how I think to say it, it just sounds stupid. “I thought this was what you wanted.”
He squints. “What I wanted?”
“Jenna said…” I pause. “She said that you’re Delta Xi and that if you didn’t get it from me tonight, then you’d get it from one of the other girls lined up on your front porch right now.”
Drew doesn’t react, his face stoic and calm in the moment. “You believed her?” he asks.
“Is she wrong?”
“No,” he answers, crushing my soul. “No, I suppose if I went home right now, I could easily find some willing girl to drag upstairs with me.” He smiles. “But I wouldn’t.”
