Chapter 78

“He’s being Arrick. What more is there to say? Delivers a speech, offers a solution, and then brushes aside all the emotional stuff to focus on the goal. He is putting all of this in a box and shelving it until I get settled in school, sorted with my own place, and I don’t even know what to feel about it. He either loves me or he doesn’t! What does he need to think about? What’s stopping him? It just frustrates me, like none of this seems real.” I pull my glass towards me and run a finger around the rim absentmindedly, looking for a fidget focus to try and calm the crazy tide of thoughts going through my head.

“Overthinker. Puts his head over his heart. Rationalizes everything, even when he should go with his gut, and chooses to keep everyone happy over his own feelings sometimes. Chooses to push aside anything he can’t handle facing. Pick one; he has many adorable, yet crazily frustrating, personality traits that are interfering with his ability to choose, Sophie. He thinks i