I was being used.

What the hell was I even expecting? For Hazel to fall in love with me? It was never going to happen.

I had fallen hard for him even without my realization and I reprimanded myself for that. I wondered why it was always so easy for my silly heart to fall for people.

Actually, the only people it had genuinely fallen for were Hazel and Basil, but it was already too much, plus the fact that my relationship with the two were never going to work out.

One might think that ...