Jenna, there's a handsome young man out here for you.

Lexi yells from the front counter to me in the back of the kitchen.

Lexi has been my favorite co-worker since I started working at Books and Brew over two years ago

at the beginning of my sophomore year of college. Assuming the visitor is my brother, Victor, I yell back.

Okay. Thanks, Lex. Tell him I'll be up front in a few.

Lexi is always flirting with Vic, calling him handsome and the like.

She thinks I'm oblivious, but I know they've been fucking for a few months. My brother's bedroom is right next door to mine, and the walls are paper-thin.

And let's just put it this way.

Lex isn't exactly quiet in the bedroom.

I finish up making myself my favorite concoction, a half-moka, half-cha-l latte,

then clock out for my lunch break and head toward the front of the

cafe. I approach the table Lexi is standing at. I freeze in my tracks. Seated alone at the table

is none other than Jason Jennings, my high school sweetheart. I haven't seen him since high school graduation.

We agreed to part ways then and there, as he had been accepted into an international political

prodigies program, and I was staying at home and going to college locally. I deleted him from all social media

a couple years ago because I was sick of seeing pictures of him cuddled up with European sluts.

Last I heard, he was engaged to a French model and living in Italy.

What the fuck are you doing here, Jay?

I ask pointedly.

I've never been one to sugarcoat my feelings, and I am feeling pretty pissed off at the

moment, considering we'd agreed to a clean break nearly four years ago.

I've moved on. I'm in my senior year of

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