The Heartbroken - S01 E153

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The Heartbroken - S01 E153

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 153

He was looking down, one hand

fumbling with the hem of his

hoodie. “I did bring you to the

place where he dumped you.” He

scowled right after saying the

words. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to put

it as bluntly as that.”

My heart leapt to my throat. “How

did you know?”

He paused long enough to look at

me. Then, slowly, he said, “I was

here when you broke up.”

I stared at him, surprised, and tried

to think back to that night. It was

difficult to recall much of it,

considering that I’d been doing my

best to forget that it ever

happened.

I didn’t know what to say, so I

refocused on his foot instead.

“You asked me before I was so

willing to help you,” he said after

what felt like forever. Taking my

silence as a cue to keep talking, he

said, “I think it was because I saw

myself in you.”

I looked up at him, but his eyes

were fixed elsewhere.

With one hand, he pointed at a spot

over my shoulder. “See that, right

there?”

I followed the direction he was

looking at and saw the familiar

juice bar I’d gone to after he

dumped me. Swallowing past the

lump in my throat, I said, “What

about it?”

“That was where I saw you crying,”

he answered. “You got out of the

juice bar and pushed past me in

your hurry.”

I looked at him. “You saw me cry?”

He lifted a hand over his shoulder

and placed his palm on the back of

his neck. “Yeah.”

I sat there, blinking, trying and

failing to completely process this

information.

“I didn’t know who you were at

first,” he added. “Then I saw Cedric

and realized we actually go to the

same school,” he said. “Then that

first day in homeroom, I knew you

looked familiar, but it took a while

for me to realize who you were

and… I don’t know.”

He sounded hesitant; like he was

afraid of how I would react, but my

silence must have compelled him to

continue.

“It felt like I could see right through

the act you were putting up,

because that was how I was acting

too, and… maybe I saw myself in

you.”

For a second, I considered telling

him about my feelings. The

thought, however, completely

evaporated as soon as I thought

about the consequences. I hadn’t

completely rid Cedric out of my

system yet and I was sure he still

had unresolved feelings towards

Sarah as well.

Telling him would only ruin things.

Some part of me wanted to believe

that he harbored the same feelings

for me. What guy would get out of

bed at one in the morning for

someone who wasn’t special? But I

knew Seth could have easily done

the same thing for any of his

friends and I refused get my hopes

up.

I wrenched my eyes from his and

busied myself by wrapping up his

wound instead.

“You never answered, by the way.”

My eyes flitted back to his.

“Answered what?”

“Why you freaked out.”

I bit my lower lip and dropped my

gaze back on his foot. “Well, it

wasn’t Cedric.”

First, silence, then, “Really?”

I snuck a glance at him. “Mmm.”

His face broke into a full grin.

—

Not long after that, we decided it

was time to leave. We packed up

and carried all the stuff he brought

back to his car. He had to limp so as

not to put pressure on his wound

and driving was out of the

question. He tried to protest, but I

wouldn’t let him.

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