Chapter One
FOR A few seconds, the fact that some woman is kissing Bennett does not register with me. Emily is babbling in my ear but I don’t hear her. I just feel a surge of emotions that leave me feeling breathless.
The woman ends the kiss and tilts her face slightly toward him as he is looking down at her but his expression is blank. Emily tugs my arm hard, asking me something. I don’t want to see anymore.
“Hey,” Emily cries out, “who is that chick he’s making out with?”
She is so loud that even over the music, Bennett hears her. At the last second, as I turn around to tug Emily away, he looks up. I feel his eyes land on me but I am already facing away from him, anxious not to speak to him. I can’t even sort out what I am feeling right now.
My goal is to blend in with the crowd. Em
