Chapter 24

Elena Sergio

I missed Matthew. I knew I did. So bad. So very bad. I missed hearing his voice, his laugh, listening to him speak. I missed the times we had at lunch, just the two of us at our table, and sometimes our occasional mate, Dana, a shy introvert. I missed how he always told me things about his life and the time we spent talking. And now I thought of it I overreacted, I should never have lashed out at him. Told him what I did. That was the stupidest, but what had been done had been done. And as much as I missed Matthew, I felt my actions were justified.

Why wouldn't he quit bugging me about KJ? At first, I thought he was just looking out for me and all, as my best friend, because if it were him, I'd do the same, but then it all just got too much. It was almost as if he was looking for any little thing to use as a negative for KJ. Anything little to pin him down. And after what he said last week, I got fed up. It was all too much. At the lunch table, he'd refused