@denniudell1d3pjy: You chose the shirt. Open the caption for the part he never told you 👇 There are more choices to explore on Cycleai 📖 Try an interactive romance where you can steer the plot and ending, with a narrator guiding you as you read. You enlarge the picture with two fingers. His sleeves are rolled exactly as you showed him. A woman is standing between his knees while he sits on a low wall. His hand is beneath her hair, and their mouths are together. The collar sits open by one button because you told him it looked less stiff that way. He had turned toward the camera to check, smiling when you approved. You remember setting your own phone against a stack of textbooks, happy to be included in an ordinary part of his evening. Your coursemate says she can call if you need her. You tell her you'll answer in a minute, then call him instead. He doesn't pick up. You watch the ringing screen until it stops, the same photograph of his smiling face that you've looked at every night for six weeks. He calls back twelve minutes later. “Hey. Sorry. Couldn't hear it.” You ask whether the celebration was good. He says yes. Names two people from the program. Asks whether you've eaten. You send the photograph while he's talking. The silence arrives before the read notification. “Who sent that?” You wait for him to say something about the photograph itself. He doesn't. You hear him move, then ask whether your classmate is there with you. "Look at the picture," you say. "Don't ask me about her." He exhales into the phone. You turn the volume down because you cannot bear how close he still sounds. You remember the shirt he didn't choose, left on his chair during the video call earlier. You remember telling him to eat before drinking, not because you doubted him, but because you knew he'd forget. “Did you ask me to choose what you wore to meet her?” He says the group plans changed. Then admits he'd arranged dinner with her that afternoon. Before he called you. “You could've dressed yourself.” “Please don't say it like that.” “How else should I say it?” He tells you it was one kiss. You ask whether that is supposed to change what you can see. He says he's coming home next week, that you should talk in person. You have already bought his train ticket from the airport. You don't mention it. You don't want to hand him another detail he can turn into evidence that you still care. The ticket confirmation is near the top of your inbox. You had chosen the later train so he wouldn't have to rush through the airport. For a moment you open the email to check the arrival time again, still doing the small work of bringing him back to you. Then you close it. The arrangements can wait until you have someone beside you. “Call me tomorrow about returning my things,” you say. “I'm ending this call now.” Afterward, you call your coursemate back. She doesn't ask you to explain the photograph. She asks whether you want her to stay on the line while you eat something. #Cycleai #BookTok #longdistancerelationship #cheatingboyfriend #romancebooks

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