“God, don’t even get me started on those two. It feels so weird thinkin’ about how different we all are now, well except maybe Tuck, he’s always had that whole charming thing going for ever since I met him.” She pressed down on her lips, hiding a smile, “Growing up with them, I always thought they were so different. There was Nash, who I wanted to punch in the face most days because that boy was real annoying, and then there was Tuck, who practically had every girl in school always crushin’ on him, but... I don’t know, I guess now, there’s more similar than I thought. I mean, Nash is pullin’ girls in their 20s, so I guess he can’t be doin’ that bad.”
Brooke let out a breath, furrowing her brows, “I never got it. I never got why he had to leave like that. I get it, I’ve been through loss, far too much of it. Lem and Hannah tell me that I’m strong, but when I had to go and face him after all these years, I felt like that 18 year old girl who was gettin’ her heart broken, seein’ the boy that she thought she was going to marry engaged to someone else. I... It’s not that I want to go and marry him or anything, but it hurt, more than I wanted to admit, having to deal with the only guy who managed to break my heart.”