Hardin:
I had always been under the impression that showing romantic feelings for someone you are supposed to only see as a friend would end up complicating things.
It came with too many rules and too many missing eye contacts to ever work.
And this time around, I was not wrong.
Again, I watched her walk down the big bonfire in that dress that hugged every curve on her body, the few other graduates just behind her but somehow, she managed to stand out more than the rest of them.
She smiled, swayed and posed for the people at the bonfire, this tradition seeming strange to me as they kept on clapping, watching the graduates flex their now growing wings.
And finally, they all returned to their seats, giving the chance for Valeria to speak.
I could see a ghost of a smile on her face as
