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“No,” he admits. “I don’t know what’s going to happen here.”
“Where will you go?”
He meets my gaze. “We’ll find a place for all of us. We’ll meet up and talk about this, okay?” He stands, looking resolved. “This doesn’t have to end here.”
“I think it does,” I say softly.
“No.” He walks up to me, pulling me against him. “It doesn’t have to.”
He kisses me on the lips, deep and strong, before pulling away.
“I’ll talk to them,” he says again before heading upstairs after the others.
I stand there in the living room, staring at the dregs of the party. I’ve never seen Henry’s place look so desolate and messy, so utterly destroyed. It’s a perfect mirror of what I’m feeling, and for a second I want to revel in it.
But the knowledge that I have nowhere to go comes crashing back down.
I have some money. I can get a hotel room if I have to. I can call my parents, explain to them… well, explain what? Henry kicked me out because I was fucking his five friends? I don’t know how I could possibly explain this situation to them without just more endless questions. No, I’ll have to handle this myself.
Fortunately, there’s only about a week left before I can go back to their house anyway. I can pay for a hotel room for a week. I can do that much at least.
The worst part of this though, I’m afraid I’ve lost everything. I lost Henry as a brother for good, just when we were trying to fix things. I lost the guys because I couldn’t do the right thing and choose one of them. I got greedy, wanted it all, and now look at me. I’m alone in an empty house, surrounded by the mess of a party, the echo of happiness.
I’m the echo of happiness now, and I have no clue when I’ll fade away.
