ALEX

“My God, he looks so unbearably pathetic.”

“Of course he does. He lost the love of his life.”

“You mean the same woman he’s been lying to?”

“Will you shut up with that?”

“What? It’s the truth.”

I stared up at the ceiling as my friends let themselves into the house, listening to Drew and Jake argue. Jake, who was usually the emotionally unavailable one out of all of us, was defending me against Drew. That said a lot.

One had to have hit an all time low to have Jake standing up for them.

I didn’t move from my spot on the couch. Actually, I wasn’t sure I’d...