“You just don’t get it!” Jamie huffed, glaring at Mona in frustration. “Liking someone—even if he doesn’t like you back, even if he doesn’t even know you like him—that feeling alone can be happiness.”“Really?” Mona murmured to herself, then looked at Jamie curiously. “So… what does it actually feel like, liking someone?”Jamie, pleased to finally have the upper hand, straightened with a smug little smile.She spun across the garden path, graceful as she plucked a flower and lifted it to her lips, smiling as though she were on stage.“When I think about Frank, I wonder what he’s doing, if he’s okay, if he’s thinking about me, or if he’s with someone else. My mind is just full of him, all the time.”She let the flower drop and twirled again, moving to another bloom and bending down to breathe in its scent.“All day long, I picture him. I daydream about what he might be doing, and I replay every little moment we’ve had together.”Jamie danced through the flowers like a ballerina, weavin
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