Kayla pov
Later that evening, I sat curled on the living room couch scrolling through the reunion schedule again, still smiling faintly over Cole's disastrous baking attempt, when I found myself opening our text thread instead.
I typed something out. Deleted it. Typed it again.
‘Priya just showed me the cookie you burned. I think you might actually be worse at baking than you are at chemistry, which honestly I didn't think was possible.’
I read it over twice, then, before I could talk myself out of it, added one more line underneath.
‘I'm really glad you came back into my life. Even with the burnt cookies.’
My thumb hovered over for a long moment, heart doing something complicated in my chest, before I finally hit it and set the phone face-down on the couch cushion beside me like tha
