“I was still in a trance as I drifted into the classroom and took my seat. Impressions of Mason lingered in my mind. The look in his eyes, the sound of his voice, the feel of his lips on mine. I was intoxicated by him, and the realization came slowly that I had fallen under his spell again. It felt exactly the same as when I first saw his picture and became captivated by him. I should have known better by now, but I felt the same magnetic pull toward him and had the same yearning in my heart to be with him. That’s when I knew that my feelings for him hadn’t been destroyed when he trampled on them. They had only gone dormant, and they were rising to the surface now.
The troubling thought that I might never be able to rid myself of them worried me, but I rejected that idea. It was j
