I watched, helpless, while they flirted

Dante, the Prick o' My Life and former live-in boyfriend, had just previously broken up with me, after a one-year relationship. I was still (irrationally) madly in love with him, but I was trying to play it cool and do the "friend" thing in hopes that he would take me back. He asked me to go to a party with him on New Year's Eve, and of course I said yes. I invited my friend Nora, and she met up with us later on. After her arrival, the two of them were inseparable. I watched, helpless, while they flirted voraciously. They ended up making out in the back room for much of the night. Meanwhile, I sat in the family room alone, surrounded by strangers, agonizing over the events taking place in the room behind me.

-Laura