Natalie
17
Kissing Penn had been such a dumb move. Now, we were in this strange in-between state. Not straddling the line between hate and friendship anymore, but between friendship and…more.
That left us teetering precariously in each other’s presence.
And he was a mystery. I didn’t know what he actually wanted from me, and I didn’t want to find out either. I felt like I was just some conquest. A box to check off—seduced my one-night stand and made her like me again.
I would rather keep my heart and body safe. I’d said no distractions while I was here, and Penn was distraction number one. I needed to get past this and forget about him.
It amazed me how easily we had fallen back into the routine we’d adopted. The fact that he actually kept to his word. He hadn’t made another pass at
