#Chapter 357: They’re Not Lies

They’re not lies. Julian didn’t say anything after that. Though, neither did I. I just gawked at him while he stared down at his bloody mary. I wanted to ask him to go into more detail. If he could specifically tell me which of the things Bridget said weren’t lies, I wouldn’t be on such a downward spiral of thoughts. I wouldn’t be trying so hard to bend over backwards to convince myself that Julian didn’t actually have a crush on me somehow. But, I supposed deep down, I already knew the truth. Not all that long ago, we had a similar talk on the beach as Julian threw rocks and shells into the ocean waves. Yet here, in the quiet of the deck in this mid-morning, with Julian already halfway through a blood mary, everything felt a bit more dire, a bit more real. This wasn’t about getting over Bridget or trying to move on. Bridget had very little to do with this at all. This time, Julian’s feelings were his own. And those feelings were all tangled up over me. And now, because of