Page 75 of Love Resurrected
“Well, I’m just a little weirded out by how affected I am by last night and Brad’s reaction.”
“Because he threw up?” She almost whispers the question.
“Yes, because he threw up! Can you imagine? How would you feel if you and Ethan had sex, and he threw up right after because he was so disgusted by it?”
“But that has nothing to do with you.”
“It has everything to do with me.”
“I don’t know, Ten. I mean, Ethan doesn’t tell meeverything. But it sounded like Brad was pretty messed up from it all.”
“Messed up? How? Why?” I walk around to a small, grassy area off to the side of my house, kick my shoes off, and let my toes dig into the cool grass. It feels good on the bottoms of my feet.
“I don’t know if I should tell you this,” Sadie hedges.
“Whose side are you on?”
“Yours. It’s just, this isn’t mine to tell.”
“Sadie.” I try to use the tone that makes Sadie agree with whatever I want.
It works.
“Okay, fine. He feels like he cheated on Kat with you.”
“Oh, yeah, I know.”
“How do you know?”
“I spoke to Nessa about it afterward.”
“Nessa, the lady who’s helping with the recruitment fair?”
“Yeah, she and Brad are close and she’s a widow, so she gets what he’s going through. She explained it all to me.”
“If you know that, then why are you so bugged by the vomiting?”
“Uh, because he vomited.”
“So, what do you want to do?”
“I don’t know. Nothing. Something.”
“I totally get it. If it helps, I know he feels terrible.”
“It doesn’t, but thanks.”
“Sorry.” From Sadie’s tone, it’s clear she feels more for Brad in this situation than she does for me, which pisses me off.
“Are you?”
“I’m sorry for both of you. We all agree you two would make a great couple, but you’ve got all that stigma about relationships and Brad is still grieving, and it seems like it may never work.”
“Who’s ‘we all’?”
“The gang. Lexie, Cole, Remi, Chance, Ethan, me.”
I cringe when she saysthe gangbecause it just sounds like further proof that she’s got a whole new posse to chill with and I’m left to get by with the sad guy all by myself.
