“I was jealous, irrationally so, because I like you, Hayley. Really like you. But I screwed up, and I knew it, so I agreed to being friends.” “You lied at the lake,” I whisper. “Why?” “Because I was trying to convince you to hate me. It was the best way I could think to keep my distance. I realized it was a mistake the moment I said it. Do you ever get the feeling that something is about to occur that will suck the ground out from under you and you don’t know how you’ll recover?”
