Chapter 19Lake
I don’t know where it came from, this need to possess Theo. I’d been working with Ben pretty much nonstop for a couple of days, and I found myself missing Theo.
It made no sense, missing him like that. If we’d been dating, then I’d get it. There wasn’t any dating to be done here, not with things still so uncertain and how hectic our lives were right now.
So as I’d sat there, talking about books with Ben during dinner, I’d started to feel Theo’s presence to my right in a more acute way.
I’d felt…excited. Like I was very naïve and inexperienced, the same way I’d felt the first time I realized I had a crush on a boy who was sitting next to me in the school lunchroom. I couldn’t do anything about it then—Johnny Petersen would’ve kicked my ass—but I could now.
At first, I mo
