Torn - Part Three (The Torn Series)
“I was making myself crazy enough as it was.
I parked myself at a table of the bar that he’d chosen. Strange for him - he wasn’t much of a bar-goer, much less so early in the day. “Just a seltzer,” I told the bartender. As much as I would have loved a drink while I waited for my ex-boyfriend to show up, I meant what I’d said to Katherine, and I intended on sticking to it.
It would be much tougher when I was back at work, and near impossible if and when I hung out with Martin and Shawn. But a...fter discussing it with Katherine again that morning, she’d suggested four months - and we’d made a pinky swear on it.
So I sipped my unsatisfying seltzer and watched Tyler enter the bar looking as morose as I remembered him. His beard was trimmed a touch shorter and his hair a tad longer, but otherwise he was unchanged.
“Riley,” he said, sliding onto the stool next to me. “You still go by Riley, right?”
“Yeah,” I said. “Still Riley.”
The shadow of a frown barely flickered across his lips.MoreLess
I parked myself at a table of the bar that he’d chosen. Strange for him - he wasn’t much of a bar-goer, much less so early in the day. “Just a seltzer,” I told the bartender. As much as I would have loved a drink while I waited for my ex-boyfriend to show up, I meant what I’d said to Katherine, and I intended on sticking to it.
It would be much tougher when I was back at work, and near impossible if and when I hung out with Martin and Shawn. But a...fter discussing it with Katherine again that morning, she’d suggested four months - and we’d made a pinky swear on it.
So I sipped my unsatisfying seltzer and watched Tyler enter the bar looking as morose as I remembered him. His beard was trimmed a touch shorter and his hair a tad longer, but otherwise he was unchanged.
“Riley,” he said, sliding onto the stool next to me. “You still go by Riley, right?”
“Yeah,” I said. “Still Riley.”
The shadow of a frown barely flickered across his lips.MoreLess
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