Chapter 3

I hang up the phone immediately.

I stood on the balcony, letting the cold wind dry my tears.

Why was dating Aaron so hard?

Would it kill him to stay away from Iris?

Maybe it was because I'd spent so much time crying outside that night, or maybe it was all those hours I stood in the cold wind, so in the end, I caught a cold.

The next day, I had a high fever.

Zoe and my other roommates took me to the hospital.

But they still had class the next morning.

I didn't want to trouble them, so…