Adjustments

EMBER

I watched Kaden’s face smirking up at me from the display on my phone. It was painful not to answer, but I couldn’t talk to him right now. Keeping such a big secret from him was becoming harder and harder.

I couldn’t even look at him earlier when he came by, knowing that if I spent too much time looking into those deep blue eyes, I was going to spill my guts without giving it so much as a second thought. I hated not being able to be honest with him. It went against every fiber of my being.

Staying away from him was just as hard, but I couldn’t very well spend time with him when I couldn’t look him in the eye and lie right to his face. I missed him so much I couldn’t stand it. I had become so used to being with him all the time that spending so much time apart was much harder than I ever could have imagined. Knowing he was feeling it too and not being able to do anything about it was even worse.

I missed his laugh, his sense of humor, his way of being there and just getting me ev