He did a bench press while Sam hung over the machine. He was tense. He munched on the watermelon he kept aside."Aren't you supposed to be resting today?""I changed my mind. I think this is a strategy." He muttered groaning at the effort."It is? I don't know man, Harley seems to like you, she posted a lot of pictures of you on her story. Why does there have to be a pattern to everything?"He turned red. "She did what!? How did you get her handle?""Are you kidding me? She has 250k followers on Insta. Reels of her acting and dancing."[ Good, now more creeps will be on to her. ]He paled. "That's nothing. I post shit all the time and delete them. No, she is just acting and waiting for the day to drop a bombshell on me and put it all over the web. With these passive aggressive posts. She'll post messages from me falling over myself trying to flirt with her. I bet they'll be laughing their asses off." Sam thought he was a little bit intense."Hmm...ok. What about you?""Are you kiddi

He said with his heart torn in two. He was conflicted and hr marched away to save himself from the stress. He bet his consoles and games were waiting for him. The depression made him desperately hungry."What do you mean? How could you? After all, you've done. You dare to show up to my face to break up with me?" She said. "Oh stop it with the games, Harley!" He said touching his head and having mixed feelings. He couldn't let his anger take the reins on him."I just came to tell you that I don't blame you. I'm not perfect. I don't want to keep sabotaging your dreams. I realized how selfish, foolish and...I've been an asshole. I'm just another novice who's never been in a relationship before and if it's okay to make fun of me by...It's fine. I can take a joke. I'm sure I'll look back and laugh someday. It's over."She looked stunned. She thought someone like him would have girls flocking after him. She shook her head. She thought she saw him moving on to Dylan. They even shook hands. H

"Dad." She squirmed disgusted to call him that. She had done so out of tension.He took some conscious steps closer to her. "I doubt that you're eager to see me this fine afternoon.""Neither are you." His eyes narrowed. "You've come this far. I suppose I'll give you some credit.""Have you come to see me fail? Get the hell away from me, Jude.""My name is Jude but you call me dad, are we clear?" He said forcefully. Meg sneered at her father. The one who abandoned her while she worked with her grandmother to raise funds for her tuition. The one burned her Medic Storybooks right in front of her when she was 4-years old. The one who took away her toys because she wanted to learn how to perform CPR to the beat of Staying Alive. The one who confiscated her phones and gave her huge law text books because he didn't want her to learn anything on the internet about medicine or interact with kids who wanted to be doctors. She stayed in her dark room with tears streaming down her eyes while h

Sam coughed. "I'm fine." They leaped on trees and raced happily, competing as well. Sam saw how fast he was and that motivated him to move faster as well. "Try to keep up, student.""You'll be sorry you said that. Someday I'm gonna make you eat your words.""Yeah right! Right after never." He flipped over to another tree and then when they reached the waterfalls and the trees where students jumped into an estuary. There was a party going on."Look at them.""They have food. You think we can go grab some and you know up our calories." Maks felt hungry after that exercise. He was afraid he would lose weight after the running and Sam's offer was tempting. "Let's go for it." They went to join the partying students. They danced and clicked glasses and laughed chugging their glasses of beer. Maks sprayed whipped cream on cheese and he ate it. Sam stayed upside down over a can of beer and the students screamed chug chug chug! Maks sat back satisfied with himself. He glanced at a few

He was afraid to go home because of the emotional strain that he was going to face but he needed to address the elephant in the room. After that ordeal and then he texted Harley so he could have a talk one-on-one. He swallowed hard. Harley smiled when he arrived and he was careful with his body language so as not to give her any cues that he was open for any intimacy. Her expression changed."What's wrong?"He exhaled impressed by her emotional intelligence. He didn't want to get personal with her so he stayed indifferent. "Yeah, I just feel like you're being too clingy and I want you to give me some space. I have to be doing other things."She turned sad. "You think I'm clingy? Well, that time you said our relationship didn't matter. That was the last straw. I figured you were fed up with me already."His expression looked wild. She was blowing this out of proportion and that was what he was afraid of."This isn't about you. I just feel like you are smothering me...a lot. I feel put