Anya shook her head, "No... It wasn't him... It... was me," She looked at Anna and sighed, "I... Told him that he had to decide... Whether or not he wanted to be with me.... That... That I couldn't handle him flirting with him if he was going to just keep pushing me away... I said... that he had been toying with me...." Again, she buried her face again, "I should have said it... but I thought.... maybe if I made him decide that... he'd actually choose me..."

No she didn't, and she knew that. She knew from the moment that she said it that he was going to run away. She thought that being pushed away one last time wouldn't hurt as much as it did with him leading her on. She had been quite wrong. She felt like her heart had actually broken. Not the little bits that it did each time Sebastian let go of her hand while telling her that he couldn't be with her but full on shattered.
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Gunner nodded, relieved to have a reason to walk away from the crying Anya. It wasn't that he didn't want to help his hurting friend, it was just that he didn't know how one went about doing that. He hoped there weren't many of these breakdowns when Anna wasn't on hand. So he set out to find the man behind the crying girl. He had a list of places to check for Sebastian. The amount of hiding spots and times Sebastian ran off to them was astonishing. However, there was one place that seemed to stand out and, finally, he found him by the spring. Gunner sighed when he saw him smoking and stuffed his hands into his pockets, "Why is Anya in the cafeteria with Anna... crying?"