Backup Girl No More: Adios To My V-Card and My First Love

Chapter 7 Less than thirty minutes after Aiden left , Maya sent me a screenshot .

It was Madisons Instagram post : Perfect morning Say youre hungry and your crush magically appears with breakfast .

I think this might be turning into something real … ? The photo showed the exact same box of chocolate croissants from my kitchen table .

I didnt reply .

Just silently wiped my tears and knelt down to clean up the spilled boba tea .

After scrubbing forever , I realized with frustration that the stain had soaked deep into the wool carpet fibers .

It wasnt coming out .

In a burst of anger , I rolled up the entire carpet and threw it away .

It was the one Aiden and his parents had spent an entire afternoon picking out in Nepal and carried back as a gift anyway .

While I was at it , I gathered everything Aiden had left at my house , plus every gift hed ever given me .

Even all our photos together from prom pictures to casual selfies went into garbage bags .

It took all day to pack up and throw away six years of memories .

Not like hed want any of this stuff anyway .

After that day , I didnt hear from him for days .

Things must be going well with Madison .

Or maybe he was waiting for me to cave first like I always did during our fights , without exception .

But this time , I didnt reach out .

There was no point anymore .

I blocked him on everything Instagram , Snapchat , texts , calls .

Changed my door code .

Deactivated all my social media accounts .

After that purge , I called my parents who were away on business .

Told them I wanted to spend the summer with Aunt Claire in Boston .

My plan was to stay there until fall , then head straight to Stanford with Maya .

Besides her , no one knew Id switched schools .

This way , I could perfectly avoid any chance of running into Aiden .

17:41 Backup Girl No More : Adios To My V Card and My First Love 4.7 % Chapter 7 Mom teased me on the phone : Ooh , planning a romantic summer getaway with Aiden ? I made up some excuse , not wanting to explain .

Just said I missed Aunt Sarah and Grandma .

Begged Dad to book me on the next available flight I needed to leave tonight .

But as I was heading out , I ran into Aidens mom by our driveways .

Brooklyn , sweetie ! Wheres Aiden ? Isnt he taking you to Aspen for skiing ? He mentioned planning a special trip you have my full blessing ! I was confused .

During senior year finals , I had mentioned wanting to go skiing in Aspen , dreaming about a winter getaway .

But given everything , a romantic trip seemed ridiculous now .

Running late for my flight , I mumbled some excuse and hurried off .

What I didnt expect was to see Aiden himself at the airport .