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He wasn’t supposed to go back.
He knew that, but he had been sitting in his apartment on the night Caroline had left him and he had just wanted to be the guy he used to be in high school. That confident guy with his whole life ahead of him, instead of this miserable loser who had dropped out of law school and just got dumped by the girl who he thought had been the love of his life.
‘You can never go back,’ his traitorous brain had said.
‘Maybe I can,’ Nick had replied back in his mind. He knew it was a lie, but he also knew everyone lies to themselves. You are what you believe yourself to be and this felt like a pretty good lie to him, a pretty good delusion to live in.
So he had packed up his bags and flew back to that sleepy Southern town he grew up in. The place where everyone knows your name and nobody ever leaves for something better.