I have always been a chronic runner.I’m the kind of girl who keeps one foot out

I have always been a chronic runner. I’m the kind of girl who keeps one foot out the door before the welcome mat has even settled. When I dated Chase Mercer online for six months, I never accepted his Venmo requests, never let him send me designer care packages, and occasionally even picked up the tab for his midnight DoorDash orders. In a world where girls circled him like sharks hoping for a piece of his family’s Manhattan real estate fortune, I was an anomaly. Chase genuinely believed I was head over heels in love with him. Until the afternoon I received a screenshot from an unknown number. It was an iMessage thread between Chase and his fraternity brother: Bro: "Mercer, my fault. I gave you the wrong girl’s handle that day. What are you gonna do now?" Chase: "Keep it quiet for now. I already added her roommate on Instagram. Let me figure out what I actually want before I make a move." Bro: "Make a move on what? Ann is obsessed with you, man. Even if you mess around with her roommate and go back to her later, she’ll be waiting on her knees." I stared at the glowing pixels on my phone, and an unexpected wave of pure relief washed over me. So that was why he had suddenly turned into an iceberg over the past two weeks. Honestly, I was getting bored anyway. I typed out a single sentence: We’re done. Before the blue bubble could even register as delivered, I blocked his number, deleted our shared Spotify playlist, and scrubbed his presence from my phone. I didn't even have the patience to see if three dots would appear. People like me—the natural-born runners—don't refuse a rich guy’s money out of pure, unadulterated devotion. We refuse it because a clean ledger makes it easier to pack your bags in the dead of night without owing anyone an explanation. When I pushed open the heavy oak door of my dorm room, the space was already choked with the sharp scent of expensive tuberose. Three girls were crowded around Natalie Reed’s bunk, their high-pitched coos bouncing off the cinderblock walls.#revengestory #reddit_tiktok #askredditstories #relationship #revengereturns #reddit #drama #revenge #redditstories #redditreadings