Chapter Twenty-Four
I didn’t say anything, his words hitting a little too close to home. Before Scotty, I had been fun, but being with him. Hearing too often the phrase ‘you do what you want’ when I would ask him to go out with my friends or to go see a concert with me had me hiding away.
It had been easier to just avoid those social situations until friends and co-workers stopped asking me to go out. ‘You do what you want’ had never meant that I was free to do as I pleased. It meant that Scotty didn’t care, didn’t want to be involved, but he also didn’t want me to be involved either. Gradually, I had become a ghost, vanishing into the familiar comforts of solitude. But now, here I was, thrust under Lover’s intense scrutiny. To this new experience, which was unlike anything I could have
