“Guess I’ll have to go home and eat that ice cream by myself
I knew that was meant to entice me, but it actually seemed like a forlorn statement about “how alone he was living there by himself. He didn’t deserve my sympathy though, since he’d never had any for me. He had been mean and ruthless and done everything in his power to make me miserable. I wasn’t going to allow myself to soften towards him now that he’d supposedly given up on his vendetta against me. I didn’t want to be with him. It was much too late for that.
I was going to start fresh with a new guy. A guy who truly was considerate and deserving of my attention. Josh had all the attributes of a great boyfriend, and he was attractive. Not as attractive as Mason, but still much better than average. He was the one I wou
