EMBER
“So, shall we?” Tristen asked softly.
His eyes were so kind, and I couldn’t help but smile as I looked right at him. “OK, but you don’t have to drive me if you don’t want to. I can take a cab or something. It would be more convenient,” I managed at last.
“You don’t need to say that, Ember. There is no way you can ever bother me, so let me take you home,” he said softly.
I smiled at that, and we both made our way out of the class to the halls. It felt weird skipping classes and I wanted to stop that, but it was so difficult to do so, and there was the small part of me that didn’t want to see Lucas right now.
It was only going to be more awkward between us, and I just didn’t want that.
We finally got out of the school, and Tristen opened the door to his SUV for me to get in, and
