APRIL's POV
4 Years Ago...
I’d finally done it. After weeks of effort, countless hours spent watching him move from class to class, and carefully analyzing his schedule, I had found my way into two of Silas’ courses. Not all of them, of course—that would have been suspicious. But I’d chosen classes with heavy group project requirements, ones that would give me a reason to spend time with him.
Getting Benny into those classes as well had been part of the plan. It had to seem natural, unforced. When Benny asked Silas to form a group for our first project, I’d held my breath, my heart pounding in my chest. Silas, seemingly uninterested in the chaos of girls crowding around him to partner up, had agreed without hesitation.
And when Benny casually mentioned his “girlfriend”—me—joining the g
