I looked at my nails again, mourning that I would never look at this color without their words echoing in my ears. We want to break up. “We love you Adelaide, since we were eighteen years old. But we need to explore ourselves,” Jesse added, and I lifted my gaze to him. Hoping he saw the aching chasm gaping in my chest. He flinched, eyes dropping from mine. Coward. Words were still beyond me, stifled under a strangling sob that squeezed my heart. My chest shuddered with uneven breaths. How could they do this to me? Especially knowing how important tomorrow night was.
