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Jules

“Re in bed after my break up with Nix?”

I rolled my head to the side and stared at Elle My hoodie, the one I used to wear every day, that I’d had to search through piles of clothes to find, now covered me like a blanket It had been weeks since I’d worn it, but I needed the safety of its soft gray cocoon “You’re co you more chocolate chunk cookies”

The corner of her mouth lifted “Not quite”

“A pep talk isn’t what I need right now”

“But it’s what you’re going to get”

I lay in“I can’t I really can’t Not right now” I breathed through the burn in ain

“How about I lie with you then?”

I nodded and the bed dipped as she swung her legs up and settled down beside me

“You have nothing to be embarrassed about” She tilted her head toward me

“When people look at you and Nix, they get it Youyou’d been seconds away froetting-hi, I never, ever batted an eye at you two dating”

I sucked in a shuddering breath

“But with ure it out Like why in the hell is he with her? Is it pity? Is it a dare or a bet? A fetish? And it’s only a ”