Carrie

It was hard to not fall deeper in love with Don Meyer after all that he just revealed to me. I tried to process everything at that the same time that it made my head hurt.

Never would I have known that Don was in love with me since we were kids. He was always bullying or finding other ways to hurt him, I thought that he actually hated me.

Knowing that was not the case made me feel…relieved and happy. That someone had loved me even when I had not been at my best, with all the extra weight that my body found hard to carry. Or all the times I ate like a pig at the table, like mother would say.

He saw all that, me in my worst times and he still loved me? I held him tighter to me. I felt stupid now for ever loving Drew even when he didn’t love me back, I should’ve paid more attention to Don. Who knows? It might have turned really good for us and we wouldn’t be stuck here.

I touched my neck, feeling the scar that was there