Chapter 39

KAI

“Come on man, you've been lying in your bed like that forever…” Kyle, my younger brother, walked into the room to see me in the same way he'd found me when he'd walked in before.

I had been lying on my right side, under the covers facing the night sky beyond the windows. Peering into the blackness while thinking about everything and how everything had gone with Ellie and Aiden seemed to be more than enough therapy than I could ever get from anyone.

“Don't tell me you're still stressing over that girl?” Kyle said as he sat beside me on the bed. If he had known just how much Ellie meant to me then he would have probably thought twice about referring to her flippantly as ‘that girl’.

I said nothing to him as he went on with his pep talk to get me out of the sorry state I was in. Nothing had shaken my confidence as much as Ellie had done. That moment was quite harder than anything I had ever been up against.

“You're taking things too far. Do you know just how many girls out there