Chapter 26

EMILY

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Harry had lied to me. He had looked that girl in the face and said that he didn’t know her. He had had chance after chance to say that he did, to apologize to me but he didn’t. He decided to keep on lying.

I had gotten to the limit of my patience. I was even angry at myself. Why had I been so anxious about making Harry feel like I didn't trust him? Why had I been so considerate of his feelings when he was not considerate of mine?

I had walked out on him on the football field and I had run to my room and cried. I was angry, but I was also hurt. Why didn’t he trust me? Why couldn’t he just tell me that he knew her? What did he have to hide from me? What didn’t he want me to find out that was making him go to such lengths?

All the courage that I had mustered to go and talk to him melted away with my tears. This is not what I had expected. I had expected him to just be honest with me, now that I had caught him. I had expected him to just trust me, even if he meant that he was be