#Chapter 96: That’s What Friends Are For

Celeste After what happened with Alyx, I didn’t go to school for a week. I just stayed in my room, ignoring everybody. Even Jack left me alone. I just couldn’t face Fiona. She had been calling me non-stop. I know she wanted to hear about the date, but I couldn’t talk about it yet. I went back and forth between being angry and utterly devastated. I couldn’t help but feel like there was something wrong with me. The boy I had loved more than anything or anyone had brutally rejected me in front of everyone. And the guy that had been such a close friend and that I was starting to actually like turned out to be a creep. There had to be something wrong. Normal people didn’t have this much of a disastrous love life. Take Fiona for example. She had gone out on so many dates. Maybe some of them weren’t splendid, but nothing terrible had happened to her. In fact, I had listened to her talk about how amazing it was to be in the dating scene. Even if the dates were bad. She enjoyed every single