Chapter 43 Reach Out

• "No?" I ask with an eyebrow raised. "How you talk to other people is very different from how you talk to me. You make it seem like it's too hard to be around me, like I'm the one who makes things hard between us." I tell him, and he huffs and licks the back of his tooth.
• "Kent, what I say is true, and I am who I am. I treat you the way you treat me, but when I first moved in, I worked hard to get along with you. I wanted things to work out because I liked the room. But I never would have moved in here if I had known you would treat me like this."
• "How are you?" He says it again in this voice of surprise. "I thought I did a lot of nice things for you, Julianna. Not least of which was last weekend-"