Chapter 2
Kyle felt he had just done the stupidest thing he had ever done in his life. He had hurt himself many times through the course of his nearly two decades on this earth—everything from busting the back of his head open in a sledding accident to breaking his arm in four places when a branch snapped and he fell from the top of a maple tree—but he didn’t know how possible it was, until today, to hurt oneself deliberately and how the pain of the heart could be more severe than any physical trauma.
Just outside Jonathan’s dorm, he sat down on the steps leading up to the front doors, sure his legs could no longer support him. He felt breathless, sick, and a part of him wanted to run back inside and up the stairs, to tell Jonathan he was an i***t, that he hadn’t meant a word he said, an
