Chapter 17

Pov: Caleb

She wanted to be just friends. When she said that my heart broke. I wanted to be more than friends, to explore our chemistry. I knew that it would have been a gamble but I believed that it would pay off. I almost did not agree to her condition then I remembered what the past week had been like without her.

I would take what I got from her without complaining if it meant that I didn’t have to go through that again. I hated that we would not get a chance to see what we could be. True to her word, she stopped ignoring me. When I sat with her in class the following day she talked to me. She was just as witty and sarcastic as ever.

By the end of the class, we were stuck in a heated debate about why tomato paste is not called tomato jam since tomatoes were fruits and not vegetables. If you asked me how exactly we segued into that topic, I couldn’t tell you. I was just happy I had my girl back. We were packing up our things to leave when Brianna called my name.

I groaned inwardly.