Airports, Exes, and Other Things I'm Over by Shani Petroff

Author:Shani Petroff
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends

TWENTY-TWO

Zev fidgeted as I stood there, hands on hips, waiting for what he had to say. “Well?” I questioned.

He seemed to be trying to find the right words, but I was pretty sure there were no right words for I betrayed you.

“I’m sorry, Sari. I never meant to hurt you. I love you.”

“Funny way of showing it,” I said. Too smugly, no doubt.

“Please, let me get this out, then you can say whatever you need to. I just want to explain. She kissed me. I would never have done that to you.”

I bit my lip. It was taking every ounce of willpower not to interrupt him.

“I was just caught off guard. That’s it, I promise. It was just a second. When you walked in—”

I couldn’t stay quiet. “When I walked in is when you stopped. So you want me to believe I just had such impeccable timing that I got there at the exact moment she planted her lips on yours and you hadn’t been going at it beforehand?”

He took a step toward me. “We weren’t. I promise.”

I countered by taking a step back. “That’s quite the coincidence.”

“I don’t know, maybe Bethanne saw you come in, and that’s why she swooped in at that exact moment.”

“So you finally admit she does want you back?” I shook my head. I had been telling him that for months. She had started dropping by our table at lunch, but never to say hello to me, she’d pop up at his improv shows, and of course liked every single thing he posted online—unless I was in it—but Zev kept telling me I was reading too much into everything, and that she just wanted to stay friends.

“Yeah, but I didn’t know,” he said.

My hands flew off my hips and into the air. “I told you.”

“I thought you were being—”

He stopped himself.

“Jealous?” I asked. “What I should have been was smart. I should have known something was going to happen.”

He was picking at his nails so hard, I thought he might draw blood. “Nothing happened.”

“I. Saw. You. You were with her. You wanted her.”

I squeezed my eyes shut.

When I opened them back up, Zev was standing closer. “No. I didn’t. And I don’t. It wasn’t like that,” he said, his voice softer.

“Then what was it like, Zev?” I said, matching his lower volume. “A whole party full of people and you spent the entire night with your ex. An ex who dumped you, an ex you loved, an ex who hates me and wants you back. Tell me, how am I supposed to feel? What am I supposed to think?”

“You’re supposed to trust me.”

“I did, and you kissed HER.” I shook my head. “I don’t even understand why you were you hanging out with her in the first place. She’s awful. How could the same person who says they like me ever have liked her? Bethanne and I are opposites.”

He sighed. “Not completely. I know you don’t want to hear this, but she’s not all bad.”

He was right, I really didn’t want to hear this.

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