POV: Maya
Jace DMs @maya.studies: "We need to talk."
Maya stared at the message. Her phone was the only light in the room, and those four words were the only thing she could see. She had known this was coming. She had known it since the moment she typed I know who you are too and hit send. But knowing something was coming did not make it easier when it arrived.
She typed back: When?
He replied almost immediately.
@jacewhitmore: Today. After school. The library.
She closed her eyes and pressed her forehead against her knees. The library. The place where everything had started. The place where she had sat across from him a hundred times and pretended not to know. The place where she had almost told him the truth and stopped.
She typed one word.
Okay.
She walked to school with her ho
