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Penulis: Zoë Grace
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-06-16 22:19:09

☆☆SUMMER’S POV☆☆

Hayden grabbed my hand and didn’t say a word. Just tugged me along like I was some extension of his will. The restroom was somewhere behind us now, but whatever urge I had to pee had packed its bags and left.

Screw it.

“Where are we going?” I asked, breath catching.

“You’ll see,” he said, smiling like trouble. Like he already knew I’d follow.

One second we were just running down the hallway, and the next—I was being pulled into the janitor’s closet like the world was on fire and the only way to survive it was to burn with him.

The door slammed shut. I blinked into the dim, mop-water-scented room. Cleaning chemicals. Buckets. Brooms. And him. Too much of him in this small space…with me.

Oh god. This was real.

Back in high school, I’d seen couples sneak into places like this. Always thought it was gross. Desperate. Now?

Oh, how the tables have turned.

My back hit the wall and I almost felt trapped in a world that only Hayden and I existed.

“We shouldn’t be here,” I whi
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