Caught Kissing My Stepbrother.
"I almost died THREE TIMES tonight. The ledge. The alarm. The stairwell. Three’s a charm."
“Izel, darling, you have to admit that you loved this. It’s way better than watching tiktoks.”
I hit him. He deserved it.
By the time we'd walked far enough to stop being furious, we were also starving, so we ended up at a 24-hour diner two blocks off campus, still in our hoodies, looking exactly like two people who'd just committed a very low-effort felony. Which, to be fair, we had.
We slid into a booth across from each other and somehow, without either of us calling it anything, it turned into our first real date. Not that either of us used that word. Both of us were very committed to not using that