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calls.”

“We don’t have anything to say.”

“You took off into thin air without giving me

time to explain.”

“And what would you like to explain? Let’s

hear it!” I challenge him, raising my voice.

“Try to understand, it all happened so fast, I

wasn’t expecting anything like that to happen.”

“And you think perhaps that I was expecting

it?”

“That’s not what I’m trying to say … shoot. It

seems like I always say the wrong thing.”

“Maybe it’s better not to talk.”

“Erin…”

“Nate, our relationship was already coming to a

head and you know it. We hardly spoke anymore.”

Nate lets out a deep sigh and moves towards

me, resting his back against the wall of the pub.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t want it to happen.”

“I think you did,” I answer, my nerves shot to

pieces. “Some things don’t happen by mistake,

Nate. You’re the one who let it happen.”

“I fell in love with her, I couldn’t avoid it,” he

dares to say, and just thinking about what he’d like

to say pushes me over the edge.

“Don’t you even try to tell me about it!” I yell,

now close to a hysterical meltdown. “I don’t want

to know anything. I don’t want to know how

special she is, how you fell hopelessly in love with

her, how you f—”