REED
Closing the door behind me, the click echoed louder in my chest than it did in the hallway. I leaned back against it, allowing my head to rest for a moment before exhaling a breath I had not realized was trying to escape. My face lit up with a smile that would not go away no matter how hard I tried.
I could still feel my heart thumping in my chest as if it had not been informed that the conversation was over. She remembered the kiss, and she was not sorry that it had happened.
I'd been sweating bullets the entire time, thinking that I'd have to persuade her that it was part of the hallucination, too, or else she would feel some type of way about it. But she didn’t; instead, she blushed, and when I kissed her hand, she didn’t pull away.
She was feeling me, feeling us, and I practi
