Chapter 11: Raoul

It wasn’t that I disliked him, or desired to purposely lie in order to hurt or deceive him.

It was just that I didn’t feel quite ready to open up to him, and I didn’t want anyone rushing me.

“I have this friend…and we’d been friends for about 15 years… but her drug addiction got the best of me. I was just sick of the lies, the manipulation, you know?”

He nodded his head solemnly. He could not have possibly understood, ...