Ezra I shouldn’t have said that. And now I couldn’t take it back. Fuck! She had put me on the spot, and I hadn’t known how to react. Her face immediately transformed from anger to confusion. “W_what do you mean by_by that, Ezra?” Dang! What was I going to say now? That she I was bad bad news for her? I let out a furstrated sigh, then stepped backwards, putting a much needed distance between the both of us. “I’m just saying I should be the last person you should be kissing.” I knew my choice of words were wrong, and I would probably end with Eleanor slapping me, but I just went on. “We grew up together, Beetle, and we are practically siblings. And siblings shouldn’t be kissing.” My body rejected those word, like I had said a bad spell. Eleanor looked stunned for a moment, then no

