The Floating Comments Showed Me His Real Feelings Chapter 05
Westvale was gorgeous, and the coursework was brutal, so I threw myself into it.
I thought burying myself work would make me forget.
But at every meal, every night before sleep, Callum was right there in my head,
Whatever else he was, the man knew how to take care of me.
I grew up spoiled, picky about what I ate, what I drank, how I spent my time. Dating Callum hadn’t changed
that. I never settled for less.
When I got bored or restless, I’d pick fights just to see what he’d do.
The food was too bland. The food was too dry. Or I’d get a craving for this hole-in-the-wall diner back in
Brookhaven.
And like a fool, he gave me every single thing I asked for.
He drove two hours to Brookhaven and spent forever looking for that diner. Couldn’t find it.
After more than an hour, the sky opened up. I told him to forget it and just find somewhere to wait out the
storm.
An hour later, he showed up at my door anyway.
He pulled the food out from inside his coat, wrapped up tight so it wouldn’t get wet, and handed it to me with this goofy grin. “Good thing I found it. Next time I’ll be faster.”
I ate every last bite and was too stuffed to sleep.
But I lay there so warm, so full, so held, like someone had wrapped their hands around my heart and just…
kept it safe.
Now I sat staring at whatever tasteless slop was on my plate, and the memory burned.
I was thousands of miles away. The plot couldn’t possibly still need me, right?
I was an extra now. All I wanted was to watch the rest of the story play out from the sidelines.
But the second I picked up my phone, half-tempted to look up Callum…
[She’s UNREAL. Is she seriously about to mess up Callum and Sienna again?? They’re perfect together right now. If she hadn’t left so fast I’d still want to see her suffer!]
[Of course she misses him. Look at what she gave up. But she ghosted him so hard there’s no way he still
cares. Why would he even think about her?]
Ugh, Maren AGAIN. Author, please DO something. I need to see this drama queen stranded overseas with Dobody coming to save her.]
[THIS ^^ She’s completely irrelevant now. Why am I still reading filler updates about her?]
[Lol what do you think it means? If she contacts them again she’s just being a plot device. She’ll 100% end up pushing Callum and Sienna closer together!]
(Okay if that’s the case then she IS kinda useful! Hurry up and fext him already. I want the drama!!]
My hand froze above the screen.
So it didn’t matter how far I ran. I was still just a plot device.
As long as any thread still tied me to Callum and Sienna, the story could still pull my strings.
To them, I was nobody. But I’d lived every single day of my life. I was real.
My life was worth something, with or without him.
I set the phone down and blocked his number, deleting every last trace of him.
Whatever happened next, I was choosing me.
