Chapter 17

Chapter 17

After six months apart, we’d both changed. Aiden looked different thinner, with sun–lightened hair, but still unfairly handsome in that effortless way that had made half our high school swoon.

I might have been naive about people, but I always had good taste. It’s probably why I’d spent years following him around like a lovesick puppy, convincing myself that the boy next door was my destiny. Looking at him now, I could still see why but the view was different when you weren’t looking through rose–colored glasses anymore.

After a moment’s pause, I walked over with an easy smile, the kind you give distant acquaintances. “Hey,

Aiden! Didn’t expect to see you here.”

to throw him more than anything else – no trace of our history, no hint of the girl who

to recover, hands slightly shaking as he grabbed my luggage. The

on coming to help. Wouldn’t take no for

her know it was fine. And surprisingly, it was.

about college life, making my parents laugh with tales of midnight pizza runs and failed attempts at doing

invitation inside, but we all politely

grapevine that he tried to catch me several times,

he’d even try – what could we possibly have

traditional family dinner (complete with my dad’s infamous attempts at grilling in winter), the older generation settled in with their shows while

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