Before We Fall by Jordan Marie

Author:Jordan Marie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jordan Marie

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Junie

“Where’s Ben?” Luna asks, almost immediately. I knew the question was coming and that’s one of the reasons I didn’t want to come to Josh’s game tonight. I would have missed it, but that would have hurt Josh, and I don’t want to do that.

“I don’t know,” I reply with an honesty that hurts inside.

“What do you mean you don’t know?” Luna probes.

“We broke up.” I breathe out the words and the breath is freaking painful.

“You broke up? But why!? Ben is crazy about you, and I know you care for him.”

“We just want different things,” I mumble, guilt hitting me hard.

“Bullshit,” Gavin says, and it’s a tone that I don’t think I’ve heard from my brother before. My gaze cuts over to him. He’s watching me, clearly unhappy, as evidenced by the censure on his face.

“Gavin,” I start, but he shakes his head no, not letting me talk.

“I love you, Junie, you know that. But, you’re making a mistake here and we both know it.”

“Hold up,” Luna interjects. “You knew they had broken up and you didn’t tell me, Gavin?”

“That’s because they haven’t broken up.”

“We have,” I argue, hope and fear warring with each other at Gavin’s words. Has he talked with Ben? Have they been discussing us? Does this mean Ben hasn’t given up on me?

“Whatever, Junie,” he dismisses me.

“I don’t see how this is any of your business, Gavin. I’m a grown woman, and I can decide who I date and who I don’t,” I mumble.

“You’re a grown woman who needs to get her head out of her ass,” he utters under his breath. I hear him though, and that just pisses me off.

“What do you mean by that?”

“Gavin, maybe we need to step back and let Junie—”

“Live my life? That’s exactly what you need to do, Gavin. My life is not yours,” I interject, finishing Luna’s sentence. I’m letting my anger take control now, but I can’t help it. I miss Ben. I miss him so much it hurts. I know my head is messed up, and I know I’m pushing him away. The thing is, I can’t seem to stop. My head is all messed up, and I seem to be drowning in the past. It’s not logical, but it’s there. Something about the fire has triggered everything in my past, and all I can feel is… panic. It’s not even logical, but it is overpowering. It’s so bad that I haven’t been able to go to my counseling sessions that I was in—not even when I know I’m losing Ben.

“Fine. Live your life. I’ll leave you alone if you can answer one question, Junie.”

“What?”

“Do you care about Kingston at all?”

Suddenly the anger leaves me, and I look out blindly toward the football field. I don’t see my nephew out there, though. I don’t see anyone. I’m too lost in my thoughts.

“Of course I do. But you can care about someone and the relationship not work out, Gavin. Not everyone is strong enough to withstand life, like you and Luna were.

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