Chapter 19

Kristen’s POV

“I’m handing in my two weeks’ notice,” I said as I sipped my lemonade. 

“What?” Melody asked, gawking at me over her plate of linguini.

 “It’s been two weeks now, and things still haven’t thawed out between us. I mean, he talks to me, and he’s polite; it’s not like it was the first time he freaked out, but still… He didn’t even acknowledge what happened that night. Nor does he talk to me with any sense of familiarity. It’s like we’ve gone back to being strangers. Except that we’re not strangers not anymore.” 

“You sound hurt.” 

“I am hurt,” I admitted. 

“We had a connection at dinner, Mel; if I'm honest, we had a connection long before that. He was the one who asked me out in the first place. He initiated dinner, and he picked me up, and things were going great until we sat down at the restaurant. Then we started talking, and things seemed to be going well, and then… He just blanked.” 

“Blanked?” M