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“Right” the colonel said. “Yeah. I was tired of her getting upset for no reason. The way she would get sulky and make references to freaking oppressive weight of tragedy or whatever but then never said what was wrong, never have any goddamn reason to be sad. And I just think you ought to have a reason. My girlfriend dumped me, so I’m sad. I got caught smoking, so I’m pissed off. My head hurts, so I’m cranky. She never had a reason, Pudge. I was just so tired of putting up with her drama. And I just let her go. Christ.”

Her moodiness had annoyed me too, sometimes. But not that night. That night I let her go because she told me to. It was that simple for me, and that stupid.

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