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"Thanks" I grin, so happy I feel like I’ to burst I still can’t believe he’s ether That this beautiful, sweet, funny, irritating, sexy et out of here?"

He raises his brows "Are you?"

"Definitely It’s so hot" I nod, glancing around at everyone else starting to leave the field "We’re all dying to get out of here"

"I have a gift for you first" He holds up a bouquet of pink roses, the sao, and my heart melts He thrusts the crinkling inthe flowers up to rance "They always re and my love for him nearly overwhel, really ood I re and nothing Worried that I was doing the wrong thing, needing to be a good girl, accon under control but not really happy

Not really living

Owen has untangled all my knots Smoothed them out and made ood and seeking approval There’s beauty and pain and love and sex and happiness and anger And it’s okay to have all of that, to feel all of that He makes me feel

And I know I’ when I unzipout of it, then drape it overa pale yellow sundress, and his eyes zero in on the little straps that tie on each ofthose bows and slowly peeling the dress off of me

I’

"I don’t know," I say as he slips his ar across the field toward the caood to say that Don’t you think?" He plays with the bow onthe loop of fabric, and I shiver

"Feels good to say what?" He’s distracting me I can hardly focus when he touches ht now, because we’re surrounded coh it’s just me and him

"That you don’t know We don’t knoe’re really doing next, do we? The entire summer is open for us to do whatever ant" He shi irritably since we’re standing right in the middle of everyone’s path, but I don’t care

I don’t think Owen cares either

"I’d rather not knohat I’ plotted out for the rest of my life with someone else" I mean it He’s the only one I want The only one I need

"I feel the same, Chels Exactly the saers drifting across my cheek, and I close my eyes, in that moment so completely lost in him …

That I’m also completely found