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He took another step away from me. It was so abrupt, I stepped towards him and he shifted back. Adam couldn’t stay still. There was an animalistic pacing to his movements.
"Adam, you’re freaking me out," I admitted. "You look sick."
"I can’t do this to you," he muttered. "I just can’t do it."
I stared at him. "I know it…wasn’t a good prank. I didn’t mean to embarrass you—"
"You didn’t embarrass me."
Something changed on his face though and it left me uneasy. His jaw tightened, he rolled back his shoulders, and I could feel the walls going up. Adam was gearing up for something. Something that left a bad taste on my tongue.
"Adam?"
"Piper…this isn’t going to work out.”
My heart dropped in my chest. “What?”
“You deserve…so much better than this and I wasn’t…meant for relationships." He took a deep breath. “I’m impulsive and I’m rash and I think about the score between us and I can’t watch it keep climbing—”
“What—what are you talking about?”
“It’s not going to work out.”
“Are you—are you—?” I couldn’t breathe. “Are you breaking up with me?”
“You’ll be better off.”
My hand flew to my throat and I tried to calm down, to talk normally, but I couldn’t. “Is this—is this a joke? Are you getting back at me because of the prank? Because I’m sorry, I—I said I’m sorry, I’m really, really sorry—”
“This isn’t a joke, Piper,” he said, his voice soft.
“But—but you said you love me.”
“That’s why I have to do this.”
A horrible feeling settled over my body. “We can just pretend like we never said I love you. And—and we can just go back to how it was before and—and—”
He shook his head. “No, ice princess.”
His favorite term of endearment felt like a slap in the face. The pain welled up inside of me and I stumbled to the side. My feet worked faster than my brain did. I hurried away from him, putting as much distance between me and the linebacker as possible.
"Piper," he called after me, breaking away from the shed. "I’ll drive you home."
“No, no, no.” I wiped away the tears but they kept coming.
Don’t cry, don’t cry, don’t cry.
"Piper, I’ll drive you home—"
I shook my head and when he cut in front of me, I pulled away from him, unable to hide the tears. Adam wasn’t ready for a relationship. And he decided to tell me at a friend’s birthday party where we both knew everybody inside. And I loved him so much and that made it so much more unbearable.
“I love you,” he told me. “I’m always going to love you. But I’m not the guy you need.”
There was a hard lump in my throat. "You are so fucking mean, Adam Russell."
He stared at me, stunned, and I backed away from him.
"You can’t play with people like this," I told him, brushing away at the tears with the back of my hand. "You can’t just decide to mess with someone’s feelings and emotions like this—I’m sorry about the prank. I’m so sorry." I shook my head. "But you are so fucking mean."
