"Oh please," Dennis rolled his eyes, "Romilda, you never sought me out for no reason just to chat. You never needed my company for anything, ANYTHING. You only ever noticed me when I was falling apart. What else should I presume? That you enjoyed my drama? Let's just put the games aside and face reality. We were never really friends anyway, so you're not losing anything."
That she couldn't understand wasn't a huge surprise to him. Everyone in this school lived with so many lies so much of the time that the truth was completely hidden from them. But he knew the truth, he could see it clearly everywhere and he couldn't be bothered to pretend anymore.