Bye Bye Lovesick Puppy No Longer Chasing Your Glow, I Became My Own Sun novel Chapter 16

Chapter 16

That night after I left, it started pouring rain.

My roommate came back telling me there was some lovesick guy standing outside our dorm in the downpour.

I felt absolutely nothing and had zero desire to go console him.

Tanner stood outside our building all fucking night, only leaving when the sun came up.

What a pathetic display.

But I never expected that instead of going back to Atlanta, he’d flown straight home to New York.

A few days later, his mom called me, and I almost didn’t pick up.

“Drielle, sweetie, could you please talk some sense into Tanner? He’s been sick ever since he got back from

Massachusetts.”

“He had a 104–degree fever and refused to go to the hospital or take medicine. He finally recovered today, but now

he won’t go back to school.”

“He’s talking about dropping out and retaking the SATs to get into MIT to be with you…”

My head was pounding with pure frustration, but I didn’t hesitate for a second.

“That’s impossible, Mrs. Whitlock. I won’t wait for him. I’ve already planned out my college life, and I’m not stopping to waste time on someone who can’t respect my choices.”

“Please tell him to stop being an idiot, or I’ll think even less of him than I already do.”

I heard something crash to the floor on the other end of the line.

Good. Maybe reality was finally sinking in.

Eventually, I heard Tanner went back to school after all.

His grandparents had intervened to talk sense into him.

But apparently he was planning to apply for grad school at MIT to “be near me.”

Even when I completely ignored him, he’d just lurk from a distance and leave things I used to like–flowers, books,

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