2 Chapter 2

I went back over to my table, where Bertha and Keith were still talking. I think I saw hearts in her eyes.

“What are you lovebirds talking about?” I laughed to myself when Bertha’s face turned white.

“We were talking about who all peaked in high school,” Keith said and pointed at the stage in the gymnasium where the old football players and cheerleaders were hanging out. None of them had aged well, it seemed. Was I a bad person for laughing about it? They’d all been jerks in high school, so I decided that I wasn’t.

“So, who is making the reunion speech or whatever?” I paused before continuing, “Wait, is that a thing?”

Bertha laughed and answered, “Well, the student council president is in charge of that…” She trailed off, leaving me to put the pieces together. She chuckled as what I’m assuming was a look of terror came over my face. The student council president. A.K.A. my ex-girlfriend.

“Oh God, so she is going to be here?”