Chapter 69: I loved ya.

Chapter 69: I loved ya.

The words ‘I loved ya’ were still hanging in the air, and Gareth didn’t know what to do with them. They were unnerving, and Gareth was thrown. He wouldn’t have been more surprised right now unless Rusty also said he was a werewolf that ate nothing but kale. The quiet declaration had Gareth’s mind drumming up everything they did as kids. Rusty couldn’t love him. That didn’t make sense. Rusty loving him threw a wrench into everything he thought he knew about his time in the mountains.

“If you loved me so much,” Gareth began. “Then why did you force me to eat popsicles at the corner store? You knew I hated that. I complained I was going to vomit, and everyone laughed. That’s not love. That’s a prick.”

“Ya remember that?” Rusty turned so pink his ears were red like he’d been sunburned. “Do ya remember when ya said that ya ain’t have no gag reflex? Ya told everyone one night at the campfire.”

“Yes.” Gareth shrugged. “I don’t have a gag reflex.”