“It only made me cry harder. I felt so stupid. Five years – five years I had spent locking everyone out because I thought it was for the best. Because I knew I couldn’t handle another person walking out on me. And all it took was one night for me to change my mind, to decide that maybe it would be okay to let someone in. Especially if that person was Brett. I wanted that person to be Brett. But he didn’t want to be that person. And I couldn’t make him either.”
