Winter goes, spring comes, swallows returns

Summary

For seven years, I was Ryder Blackwood’s loyal doormat. In my seventh year of tutoring his ass, he finally aced his SATs and became state valedictorian.

But at our graduation party, he dropped a bomb.

"You should apply to community college with me," he said, his tone casual. "I have to go with Skylar."

For all those years, I’d done everything he ever asked. I’d bent over backward for him.

I once got on my knees and begged in public just to make him smile.

Everyone said I was the pathetic pu