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—”
