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I guessed Jesse and I had a called a shaky truce, but I did know I couldn’t tear myself away from him. Not anymore. I wasn’t ready to take the plunge into an actual relationship, so we did what we did. We spent the night together, not every night, and we hung out in secret. The only two people who might’ve guessed about our situation were Cord and Beth. She caught me on the curb again when Jesse drove to pick me up, and Cord had been in the basement one time when we slipped through. Other than those two, I didn’t think anyone knew. Jamie knew Jesse had someone in his room that day, but he didn’t know that girl was me.
We had to write a paper for our group project, and he grumbled the entire time we were in the library about the chick Jesse was banging. Cord stared at me the whole time
