Taming the varsity player
"I didn't mean it like that. I promise you on my life, I didn't mean it to come out that way."
I looked up at him, my hazel eyes glittering with unshed, angry tears. "Then why did you say it, Mike?"
"Because I don't know what the hell I'm doing," he confessed, the rough admission ripping from his throat as his grip on my shoulders softened, his thumbs stroking the smooth knit of my green dress. "I don't know how this relationship thing works. It's my first time, El. You are my first official girlfriend—the first girl I've ever actually taken seriously. The first girl I’m... that I'm completely in love with."