“So, uh, Gaian told me that we’re going to a Halloween party,” Darius said, lying next to me in his bed and staring up at the ceiling.
All night, after the guys went out without me, we had been chatting about everything under the damn sun, it seemed. And I … really loved it.
Why hadn’t we been this close four years ago? All I remembered was feeling so awkward around him and coming to him about problems with Calder. I never listened to any of his advice because I lost every train of thought around all of them. Reason had always gone out the window.
I inched closer to Darius and brushed my fingers against his. “Yeah, Maxine invited me.”
When the others were out, Darius usually left me alone and gave me space to myself because Calder and Thayer didn’t know the definition of personal space
