Chapter nineteen

I sat across Henry after Melanie and Sloan had left. I didn't know what to say to him and he was just staring at me, smiling like a little kid. "Look Henry, I know I said I was in love with you but I just want you to know that I'm not an easy girl to deal with." He smiled even more brightly and nodded repeatedly. "If I decide to go out with you, you have to promise me that you're going to stop seeing other girls.

"Yes ma'am."

"I mean it, and you have to stop being mean to people, and you have to love me, and only me, and-"

"Hazel," he held my hand and stared into my eyes, making my heart seize for a moment. "I love you, I don't know how it happened, I don't know when it happened, all I know is that you mean so much to me, and I promise you that I'll never do anything to hurt you." He smiled and it made me smile too.

My heart fluttered with the way he smiled so tenderly. Henry was nothing like Sloan. When I was with Sloan, I was happy, sure but with Henry, it's just so different. I did