THE LILYTHORN
“Now the” last time I left you on a platform like this, you didn’t come back for six months,” Iris said after kissing my cheek. I wanted to retort that it was she who had ended up courting someone else when I finally returned. That it was me who had turned down MULTIPLE advances from girls in Kandaheart, and that after Homecoming night, there was no way I could even think of another girl.
But a little voice that sounded suspiciously like Reagan whispered in my mind that that would be a bad idea. “It’ll barely be a month and then I’ll be right back in your arms,” I said instead. I held her tightly, kissing her neck as she squirmed at my tickle attack.
“Break it up, lovebirds, the train is here,” Roc said as he walked through us rather than around. A week since the end of Ho
