After Reading My Boyfriend’s Mind, I Dumped Him for Good Chapter 09
If he had just said it-firmly, without hesitation-I could’ve lied to myself a little longer. Covered my ears.
pretended I was imagining things.
But reality was right there in front of me.
Atticus’s thoughts were screaming hate, while his mouth couldn’t even form the words “I like you.”
Right. Hard to say “I like you” to someone you hate.
The news of our breakup spread quickly. People were talking about it everywhere.
Just like back when I’d first gotten together with Atticus, the chatter followed the same tired script-the
desperate girl finally got dumped.
I had once argued loudly that Atticus treated me well, that he liked me.
But now, I didn’t even feel like saying a single word.
“Hey.” Sophia nudged my arm. “Did you know Atticus is telling people you dumped him? Says he’s gonna win
you back.”
“Also, he came by earlier to drop something off. How come you didn’t even look up?”
I was lying on my desk, half asleep. “Oh. I didn’t notice.”
“You’ve changed, you know that?” She rested her chin on her hand.
“Before, if Atticus showed up, you’d literally leap into his arms. What’s up with that?”
“Nothing. Just don’t like him anymore.”
I imitated her posture and yawned lazily, propping my head up.
Then I glanced out the window and froze.
Atticus hadn’t left after delivering something.
He was still standing by the window ledge not far away, staring in my direction.
He was far enough that I couldn’t hear his thoughts clearly anymore.
But he had definitely heard what Sophia and I had just said.
He stood there, the rims of his eyes tinged red. For a second, he looked like a lost puppy.
If I didn’t know what kind of thoughts were running through his head, I might have actually believed he loved
I turned away and pretended not to see him. Then I went back to sleep.
After lunch, Sophia leaned over and poked me.
“There’s a thing Saturday night. You in?”
“Who’s going?”
“Just some people from school. You’ve seen most of them before. It’s the weekend anyway.”
Jake nodded. “Sure, I’m in.”
Sophia kept pushing, so I eventually agreed as well.
What I didn’t expect was that Atticus would be there too.
And the moment the gathering started, he sat right beside me.
I frowned slightly and shifted my chair a little farther away.
I really didn’t want to hear him complain about how annoying and disgusting I was again.
[Why’d she sit next to me again?]
[So annoying. Feel like I can’t even breathe. Disgusting.]
[She’s so irritating-even her breathing pisses me off.]
I tightened my grip on my cup and tapped Jake’s arm.
“Switch seats with me.”
He looked confused but still stood up and switched with me.
Now that I was a little farther away, I couldn’t hear Atticus’s thoughts anymore.
Relieved, I swung my legs and reached for a bottle of water on the side table.
But no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t open it.
Suddenly, an opened bottle appeared in front of me. I looked up.
Atticus stood right in front of me, dark eyes locked on mine.
Everyone else was sitting. Only he was on his feet-right in front of me.
When we were together, he acted like he didn’t like me.
Now that we’d broken up, he was acting like he did. Total fraud.
Jake glanced between us, then silently took the bottle from my hand, twisted it open, and set it back down in
front of me.
Atticus went still. He stared at the two bottles sitting side by side. His breathing turned ragged.
