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“Just this guy Juliet goes to school with. And this other guy who works down here. I’m meeting him now. Gotta maximize my time when I drive this far, you know?”
Silence.
“Ken?”
He coughed. “Yeah.”
“You gonna talk to me, or should I go inside?”
“For your second date?”
“Yeah. I don’t wanna keep him waiting.”
I was being cruel, but I didn’t care. I was going to yank a feeling out of that motherfucker if it was the last thing I did.
“Are you gonna be okay to drive later? Do you need me to come get you?”
Oh my God! Are you fucking serious? Why aren’t you jealous, asshole? I hate you!
“No. I’ll be fine!”
“Brooke, just let me come get you. I don’t want you to end up like Jason.”
“We’re not talking about Jason right now! We’re talking about the fact that you don’t even care that I have a date! Two dates! I have two dates tonight, and you don’t give a shit!” I blurted.
“I didn’t say that.”
“Just like you didn’t say that you love me or that you miss me or that I’m fucking pretty or anything! Ever! That’s why we broke up in the first place, Ken! Because you never…say…anything!”
I was officially yelling into my phone with large hand gestures on the sidewalk in the middle of the night. That’s what Kenneth Easton did to me. He frustrated me to the point of lunacy.
“I’m sorry.”
“What? What was that?” I snapped.
“I’m sorry.” His voice was a faraway murmur. “I’m sorry I’m such a shitty boyfriend. I don’t…I can’t…” he rambled, grasping for words and feelings that were beyond his reach. “I mean, I wish I could—”
“Ugh! You know what? Why don’t you figure out whatever the fuck it is you want to say to me, write that shit down, and then tomorrow night, when you call me again, for no fucking reason, maybe you’ll have something to talk about?”
I mashed the End button on my phone, shoved it into my bag, and marched my needy ass right into Fuzzy’s Bar & Grill.
