“It’s okay, I’ve ordered new ones. The point is, I was too busy to realize that you were just trying to anticipate my move with that chess brain of yours.” She pauses. I watch her slip her shoes off with her toes. “I think that when I left, you were scared that I’d get over you. So you decided to get over me sooner.” “I didn’t—” “Maybe not consciously, but—” “I mean, I didn’t decide it,” I say, voice thick. My last vestige of irritation is washed away by something dangerously close to tears. “I just thought that you…”
how has the narrative suddenly flipped that mal was the one to disconnect the friendship? did i hallucinate all the times she texted easton and she didn’t reply which is why mal stopped texting her?
