Chapter 17

• One of the most difficult things to get used to when Ryan moved out was that I didn’t have anybody to share things with. I’d see some silly news story or hear some gossip about a friend, and I’d want to tell him—but I couldn’t. He was gone. It’s the strangest feeling to go from sharing everything with someone to sharing nothing.
• “She’s adorable,” I say. “I’m going over to see Layla and Gage later. They plan on spending most of the summer in Savannah, so they’ll be close to family while the baby’s so little.”
• “Gage told me. I called to say congrats,” Ryan says, and that doesn’t surprise me. Gage and Ryan always got along. It’s not like they hang out anymore, but there are no hard feelings between them. Still, Gage is my brother, and he stood by me through the divorce.