CHAPTER 25: Mimi’s Pov; I swear, if someone had told me a year ago that my life would look like this caught between love, fear, guilt, longing, and the messy, beautiful chaos that is Frank Santiago I would’ve laughed in their face. Or cried. Probably cried. Because right now, as I sit on the tiny couch in my dorm room staring at the message on my phone, all I feel is this weird cocktail of panic and aching warmth that makes my chest tight. Frank: “Open your door. I’m outside.” My heart drops straight to my stomach. He’s here? Now? After the way things ended earlier after that argument, after the jealousy, the silence, the way we both walked away like we weren’t both dying to turn back? I wipe my palms on my jeans, swallow hard, and move toward the door. My hand hesitates on the knob. Part of me wants to open it. Part of me wants to scream into a pillow. Part of me wants to collapse into his arms. And part of me, maybe the loudest part, is terrified. Terrified of how much I
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