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"I wanted to tell you in person." Her voice is strained and quiet, but that doesn't stop me flicking my arms in the air and barking, "So, why didn't you come to see me?" "I did come to see you!" Her shout closes up my throat in a second. Cold dread spreads through my body like a virus as I stand there gaping at her. She crosses her arms, her voice turning small and shaky. "I came to see you at Kelsey U." Her chin bunches, her eyes glassing over. "But you were otherwise occupied." My heart starts thundering, ready to beat right out of my chest. What did she see? What was I doing? I press my hand against my rib cage, wondering if this is what a heart attack feels like. The look on her face right now is killing me. "I can't do this," she rasps, sucking in a ragged breath and darting out from under the trees. "Sparks." Instinct has me reaching for her, but I stop midway when she snaps at me. "No! You don't get to call me that anymore. I'm not your Sparks. I'm not your anything! You made sure of that!" A bitter ash fills my mind, and all I can do is stand there as she runs away from me, her blonde hair flying. I have to let her go. I'm too afraid to chase her and find out what she saw me doing. It must have been pretty bad by the look on her face just now.