Page 10 of Chasing Chase London, Part 8: Valentines Day

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“Sworn everyone giggled together at sleepovers and went to crazy parties together. Chase flirted with everyone and was always smiling.

Now everyone is falling apart. Lindsey and Daria are both miserable but not speaking to each other. The perfect couple broke up. Chase isn’t talking to me. Daria talks to me in class but stares at me with forlorn betrayal when I’m with Lindsey the rest of the day.

No one is talking to Elaine, and yet somehow, she seems to be the only one unchanged. Actually, she might be happier than ever. She has her boyfriend at college, and the new boy everyone wants here, and his little sister for a pet.

Everyone else has the broken pieces of what they used to be.

After school on Friday, I see Chase, Todd, and Oliver walking down the hall together.

I can hardly stand it that Chase doesn’t look at me and wink, or say something to make me blush.

My heart is beating like a snare drum, aching for him to acknowledge me or even give me a dirty look when they walk past.

None of them even glance my way, though, and my heart shrinks inside me. I’m invisible again. I only exist in the world if Chase London decides I should.