Dumped Me 23
Chapter 2 Back then, his dad and stepmom had fled the country, leaving him high and dry with all the family assets frozen solid. The golden boy had fallen from grace–friends ghosted him to save their own asses, Cherry wouldn’t even answer her door. and everywhere he went people whispered and pointed. And me? I could barely keep myself fed, but I still brought him home.]] “Dylan, let me take care of you.“]] He was just sitting there on the ground, all six–foot–two of him looking like a broken toy that someone had tossed in the trash. Even his voice sounded rusty, like gears that hadn’t been oiled in years:[] Do I know you?” “Yeah, I work at that bubble tea place near your campus.“] He gave me this look–like I was some creepy stalker trying to take advantage of his situation.[] Which to be fair, I totally was.] He hadn’t eaten in three days and had spent the whole night getting soaked in the rain outside Cherry’s place. Guy was so weak a strong breeze could’ve knocked him over. Growing up in foster care made me tough as nails, so I basically dragged his ass back to my shitty studio apartment and didn’t let him leave for two weeks straight.|| After that… Dylan just never left. Poor little rich boy had no clue how the real world worked–zero survival skills. So I busted my ass working morning delivery runs, washing dishes at lunch, slinging drinks in the afternoon, and doing food delivery at night just to keep us both alive.[] Sometimes he’d get this guilty look and say stuff like: “Why are you doing this? You’re just making your own life harder.“[] But most of the time, he just acted like I was invisible.[] Thing is, in my twenty years on this planet, only my parents had ever really stuck around for me.] Mom and Dad were there for me–they were good to me without expecting anything back So when I was there for Dylan, obviously I had to be good to him too. 7 “Annie, can you grab those boxes? You’re spacing out again–that’s like the third time today.“] The bubble tea shop manager’s voice snapped me back to reality.[] I nodded and hurried outside….