Even though they’d been together since primary school, the breakup didn’t seem to affect Lizzie too deeply because she started seeing someone else within days of them calling it off. Hugh, on the other hand, spent several months moping around the house like a dark cloud until he collided with Katie in the hallways of Tommen and the sun started shining for him again. Deep down inside, I knew the reason Hugh tried to keep me away from Gerard was because he was projecting his own experience on me. When my brother said that he was afraid of me getting hurt, what he really meant was that he didn’t
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