- Chapter 3
- Jake left me.
- As the garage door rumbled shut, I received a
- text.
- “I’ll be out of town for a while. Pack your
- things.”
- “I’ll have someone change the locks in two
- weeks.”
- I didn’t reply.
- Silently, I erased all traces of myself from the
- villa I’d lived in for five years.
- After a long while, my phone lit up.
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- Jake had probably met up with the terrified
- Lily.
- He was wrapping up our ten–year relationship
- neatly.
- “Call me if you need anything.”
- “We can still be friends, even if I can’t give
- you a title.”
- I loved Jake for ten years.
- In return, I got a casual “friend.”
- The downpour lasted for two days.
- The city was soaked, damp to the bone.
- !.couldn’t sleep. I kept getting up in the
- middle of the night, flicking my lighter.
- The year I met Jake, he was just a small–time
- hoodlum who couldn’t pay his rent and lived
- in a basement apartment.
- In the humid air, the lighter was the only
- source of light.
- “Click,” “click,” igniting and extinguishing.
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- Jake, with his buzz cut, stared at me in my
- school uniform.
- “Think it through, Sarah.”
- “A guy like me, I’m a loser.”
- “I can’t give you the future you want.”
- I was so naive back then.
- I took off my rain–soaked Converse.
- I tucked my freezing feet into his lap.
- Through his thin tank top, Jake’s body heat
- was like a torch, slowly igniting me.
- Even though there was only the flicker of a
- lighter, I stubbornly nodded.
- “Jake, I don’t want a future.”
- “I just want you.”
- Jake and I held guns together, wielded knives
- together.
- In nights filled with the smell of bandages and
- antiseptic, we made love until we passed out,
- then woke up and did it again.
- Jake said that the first thing he would do
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- when he went clean was marry me.
- Now, he’s going clean.
- And the first thing he does is cut me loose.
- I’m twenty–eight, not a kid anymore. I can’t
- keep running wild.
- My family has a good guy waiting for me, just
- waiting for me to give him a chance.
Live Up to My Yearing Chapter 3
Live Up to My Yearing Chapter 3
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Live Up to My Yearing English Novel
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