“John? Everything alright?”
His face was red, his eyes pierced with anger.
“I’ll kill that son of a bitch..”
My eyes widened in horror. James. He meant James.
But why?
“Erm, I really don’t think that’s necess-” I tried.
“Lacey, don’t fucking defend him! He’s hurt you, haven’t you noticed? You can’t go a day without crying. You can’t stand to look at him. He’s destroying you, Lace. And it hurts me to see you like this!”
I was speechless. What could I say?
Of course he was right.
It pained me to look at the one boy who I fell in love with.
The one boy who I would never replace.
But no one knew that. That was my deep dark secret.
The fact that I was still in love with him.
No one knew. Not even Liz.
I trusted her with my life, I did.
But I was afraid of what her reaction would be.
She told me countless times.
Just move on! Forget him!
But I couldn’t do it. I was weak.
And now, because of that, I was hurting John too.
I didn’t want to do that; John was such a nice guy!
So what was I to do?