No longer 16 and not one to beat around the bush, I asked him directly, “What’s going on? Is everything alright?”
The thing is… I asked, even though my intuition already told me he no longer needed a temporary distraction. (More on this later)
And after telling me “Everything is fine” “I’ve just been really busy” — to avoid coming right out and say, “I don’t need you anymore, Carmen,” I took a step back to observe.
A week went by with not even a “Hey!”
Week two… nuthin.
Observation-Mode aborted… initiate Chase-Sequence.


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