Re: You're the brat.
"Bi and I broke up about fifteen times before I got a ring on her finger. She even threw it at me once. In a parking lot. It took us two hours to find it." If it was just a fight, that was his way of urging her to work it out. And why wouldn't he, when a month ago they had seemed so utterly in love?
Couples had problems. Fact of life. He had seen her face enough times in the middle of her texting, or that anticipation after she sent something and was waiting for a reply, that he hardly had to inquire about her feelings. And maybe he had read it wrong, but he was a pretty good judge of character, and the man he met at that party hadn't had eyes for anyone or anything else. It just seemed sad to see something like that die out. Love stories weren't supposed to have unhappy endings.