6
MELISSA
Xander disappears again, but this time I know it’s coming. He sends me chocolate-covered strawberries under the alias of a secret admirer. Lilies after I tell him they’re my favorite flower. He texts me good morning, and I send him pictures of me goofily smiling in the morning. Things are not perfect, but they are sweet until they’re not.
This morning marks the third day of me vomiting at the smell of eggs, but this time Gianna doesn’t let me ignore the obvious sign. “Mel are you—?”
I reach up, wrapping my hands around her mouth. “Don’t even say it.”
I’ve been thinking the same thing, but I am too afraid for it to be a reality. I have university to finish. I am barely an adult. Xander can never be my true boyfriend because he is the enemy. A baby would only make matters wor
