Layla
2 years earlier
“Tell me something about you that no one else knows.”
Gray scratched at the scruff on his chin. We’d been sitting at the library table for hours, supposedly prepping for the class I had to teach in an hour, which is how we’d been getting away with spending so much time together on Saturdays for the last eight weeks.
“I don’t eat watermelon,” he said.
I squinted. “How is that top secret?”
“It’s not. But no one knows the reason I don’t eat it.”
I leaned my elbows on the table. “Go on…”
Gray pointed to me in warning. “No laughing.”
“I’m not sure I can make that promise.”
He shook his head with an easy smile. “In nursery school, my teacher read us Jack and the Beanstalk. I guess that somehow led me to think giant things could grow from seeds, if planted in the r
