The day after I met Jax’s family was the first day in my life I’d ever missed school when I wasn’t sick. I had laid in my bed for over an hour after shutting off my alarm. I’d sent Jax a text that there was no need to pick me up for school— I wasn’t ‘feeling well’ and wouldn’t be going— which was true and not true at the same time. I felt okay physically— but mentally, I wasn’t sure what I was feeling. The thought of walking the halls of Rockport High and acting like everything was fine— like a evil witch spy hadn’t been placed there to try to murder me, like Jax wasn’t some royal vampire warrior, like I didn’t love him with every bone in my body— it just.. I didn’t think I could do it. My phone pinged multiple times on the nightstand, and I sighed. It was no doubt a multitude of mes

