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I hunkered down inmost of my free ti the Princes, if I was honest with myself

That kiss

I didn’t know quite what to make of it, or what to do about it The kiss itself had been a, but in the aftermath, I really didn’t knohat it meant Cole and I had kissed twice now, and the first tier in my heart that’d wrecked me

This kiss hadn’t felt the same at all, but my self-preservation instincts still told me not to trust it

Not to believe the lie of how good his lips had felt

Not to get attached

But that didn’t stopit in my head Over and over

Neither of us h, and I was aluys If Finn had known, I definitely would’ve heard about it That boy couldn’t keep any thought or feeling to himself for more than two seconds

Each of our hout the week I wrote down the name of each class in block letters inthe red sharpie as I knocked out each one

By the tiht afternoon sunshine on Friday,for me outside Craydon Hall, and he wrapped an arm around me as he escorted me back toward my dorm

“You ready for tomorrow?” he asked

“Yeah What ti?”

“Probably like 11:30”

Elizabeth Thomas’s parents were in Spain for half the year, so she’d invited a bunch of kids to spend part of Spring Break at her house, which was about two hours up the coast

I was actually kind of excited, although nerves still jostled in my stomach Adena and her friends were still bitchy and rude toand friendly That overt friendliness still freakedbehind the Princes soers on They were better at dealing with that shit than I was