Ariel sat on the couch in their apartment that evening, running her fingers idly around the rim of her coffee cup. Everything that had happened that day-the tussle with Dave, the slight change in her feelings with Jayden, the heavy emotional baggage of what happened in the past-was still whirring in her head.

Her phone buzzed on the coffee table, pulling her from her tongue. She picked it up; a knot welled in her stomach with the notification.

It was a post from Dave.

Her hands were shaking as she opened it; her stomach twisted with the caption:

"Some people never learn when to let go. But I guess when...