Excerpt: Looking At You

“I can’t do it anymore!” I was fighting back tears. “I just can’t keep pretending to be the supportive best friend, when everyone knows it shouldn’t be her that you’re with. It should be – “
“It should be who?! Who should it be, Kylie?”
I was hoping that it wouldn’t come to this. I said nothing; I just stood there, and looked at him. I was willing my heart to just stop it’s fluttering, and decide that it didn’t want him anymore.
I watched as the realization dawned on him. He looked at his feet, and stayed like that for what felt like hours. I waited for him to say something, praying to God that he would say the words I wanted to hear so desperately. My eyes were brimming with tears, and I knew that any second now, they would overflow.
“I... I... I’m... sorry.” I stuttered, and the tears overflowed. “I didn’t want it to be like this. I’m so, so, sorry.”
He finally looked up, and the look in his eyes was one I had never seen before.