You'd first met Rick when the university professor had given the students random partners for an assignment. Rick and you surprisingly meshed, and your friendship bloomed from there. Somewhere along the line, when you had gotten to care for him unconsciously like a lover and realized your feelings, it had been a little too late, for he had already started dating Zoey. And out of consideration for their relationship, you suppressed your feelings and backed off.

Until Zoey cheated on him - and when he'd called you broken and drunk, you'd left everything and rushed to him. You did everything - Taking care of him, helping him get back to his old self, and somewhere along the line, the lines began to blur, when he'd approach you for comfort, and you, harboring the feelings for so long, gave into him.

So three weeks later, after being still introduced as a 'friend' in public, as you stand in the shadows among the crowd in the market, hoping to bake his favorite pie and surprise him, you feel your heart shattering into pieces as you see Zoey, on a date with...Rick.

Turns out, you were just a rebound.