CHAPTER 15

CHAPTER 15

JESS

I'd spent the entire Saturday hauled up in my room, refusing to leave. Between Laura and Sam, I had enough snacks to last me through winter, and I'm stocked with action-packed movies. No romcoms because boys suck

All of them.

Josh hasn't checked in on me once, and neither has Luke.

It's fine.

I didn't care.

They didn't care.

I texted Josh that I didn't want our parents to know. They were in Paris for the next month, and Luke's parents joined them. Nothing happened anyway, so there was nothing to tell.

with, "OK," and that was it-the

care. Thad space. I could leave my room without the risk of getting a pity look

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seemed wrong could I just go

felt like I was supposed to be mourning something;

didn't. In my kitchen sat Luke, eating cereal like it's the most normal thing to do on a Sunday morning in my house.

Luke stopped me. "No, Wait. Stay. I mean, you're out. Out of your room." Luke seemed frazzled like he hadn't expected me to be in my

minutes until the question in my head

do you

They were

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something?

up, leaving my cereal. I needed to get out of here. I needed to run. I usually go first thing in the morning, but I didn't care that it was not

going for a run," I said to the room, not Luke

jumped a little. I saw regret cross his face, and then he said a little softer now, "You are not

said, squaring my shoulders, but Luke stepped forward, trapping me between the counter and his body. He was close

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