Why are you like this
JAKE CONNELLY
MTAC?
GARRETT GRAHAM
Make the asshole cry.
JOHN LOGAN
I love you so much, man.
DEAN DI LAURENTIS
Send him a strongly worded letter.
GARRETT GRAHAM
I know the NFL commissioner. I could try to get his rookie contract canceled.
JAKE CONNELLY
That is diabolical, G.
JOHN LOGAN
Don’t call him G. He’s MY best friend.
JAKE CONNELLY
I’m excusing myself from this conversation.
Chapter 2
BLAKE
IT’S BEEN SIX WEEKS, AND I still haven’t cried.
My friends don’t think it’s normal. Gigi even called me a robot the other day, which was a joke, I know, but it got to me. When your boyfriend of nearly three years cheats on you, it’s customary to cry, isn’t it?
Historically, I’m not a big crier. Crying invites attention, and that’s the one thing I’ve shied away from for most of my life. But it’s not like Inevercry. A sad movie with a lost puppy or a broken relationship? I cry like a baby. Watching Gigi walk down the aisle at her wedding? Sobs.
Ergo, I know I’mcapableof tears.
So where the fuck are they?
The first few days following our breakup, when I realized my eyes were bone-dry and that wasn’t changing, I wondered if perhaps I was never actually in love with Isaac. But that doesn’t feel right. Ididlove him, and I’m grieving this loss. Every time I think about him, it feels like someone is stabbing my heart with a thousand knives.
Isaaccried. When I packed up all my stuff, he was in tears. Hysterical. He begged me to stay, promising it would never happen again.
But there’s no coming back from what he did. If it was just about a sex tape? Fine. I mean, not “fine.” I still wouldn’t have forgiven him—I hold a grudge till the day I die. But it might’ve been an easier pill to swallow. One crazy night, drank too much, gave in to temptation, and decided to film it like some sleazy amateur porn star.
But it wasn’t one night.
It was many, many nights.
For ayear.
