Chapter 26 - Be My Date?

Ever since my siblings died and my family fell apart, I'd become used to things never going my way, first with my dad and then with Derris.

Of course after a while, I got used to it. In fact, I began to prepare for it. Whenever something good happened to me, I subconsciously prepared myself for disappointment.

I definitely had not been expecting things to turn out the way they had with Derris. It was a real shocker, getting my first kiss from my celebrity crush. That was basically every teenage girl's dream and I got to experience it.

But as I prepared for school, the familiar fear arose. Derris and I actually seemed to be making headway in our “relationship” if it could even be called that. He was nicer these days and it was easier being around him. Plus he gave me my first kiss.

But he was prone to sudden mood swings. Would he be the same especially considering that he probably wasn't going to show up to school intoxicated?

I had ques