Chapter 3
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“What? Gonna tattle on the
He blew smoke right in my face with a smirk. “Go ahead. tell them I smole, 14% them I’m and the yetan Buy vs bush upst ne life with you. Then set me free”
I stared at this stranger who used to be Kieran. After a long silence, I finally took quay
TII handle things with Mom and bad.”
1 kept my head down, fighting back tears, my voice breaking “You don’t have to do fale
Kieran was distant with everyone–and he hated people getting too clone, tzer with ma
Not only did he not prah me away, but he’d secretly laugh when I did something silly, Herd carry me to the Boogical when Bate fever.
I always thought he liked me it was just naturally cold and bad at exproving fastings
So I figured if I just got a little prettier, I could conters,
To work on my posture, I signed up for yoga classes dowing tweak. That’s when I men fide, win tangir me how to become be and how to capture a man’s heart.
Looking back, I was such an idiot.
The next morning, I went to yoga class as usual, planning to act like nothing happened, finish my sessions, and gatting with my
parents.
But the moment I walked in, Jade slapped me across the face.
She held her head high, her voice dripping with disqat “You look so inneemne, bast goat’re just a shameless UUT
I was stunned. 1ooking around, I realized not only were the other students there, but so was Kieran
“Writing love letters to MY boyfriend? You’re so fucking pathetic Lader’s face was flashed with age, her manwaved als deng into my chest. “What, you think being young gives you the right to seduce other people’s boyfriend? Trying to be a homemaker
She stomped her foot like a spoiled ctald and wrapped herself arcend Kiera’s art, het ook towing any “Kieran, sey nimetang This little batch is trying to break us up–that’s why you wanted to dump me, but be
I didn’t have time to process what she meant about a breakup Instinctively, I raised my hand to slap het back, bow Kirtan taught my wrist
He looked annoyed as he scolded me “Enought Isn’t this exactly what you wanted to wer
Kieran padled me aside, then turned to jade, has voice low and strained: “This is my land. I wronged you forget about me
His grip on my wrist was painful. He looked at Jade with a mix of resignation and reluctance. “One sebool starts, $79 head tervend with Chloe. When I’m gone… you’ll get over tids.”
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Chapter 3
Jade’s mouth fell open in disbelief. I knew she was proud and conceited. After years of playing the field, she’d never been rejected.
Kieran was probably the first man who’d ever made her feel defeated.
What I didn’t expect was for her to post my love letter along with intimate photos of her and Kieran in our yoga group chat:
[This is my star student! Taking my classes wasn’t enough–she had to shamelessly steal my boyfriend too!]
She even tagged my parents: [How exactly did you raise her?]
I lunged for her phone like a madwoman, but Kieran held me back, trying to calm Jade down: “You’ve vented your anger. It’s done. I
don’t have any…”
I laughed bitterly and pulled out all my old conversations with Jade about delivering condoms:
“Kieran, you don’t actually think your so–called girlfriend is some innocent angel, do you?”
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