LEAH's POV.
Every time the door opened, I thought it was Hardin.
I was looking back and forth between the watch on my hands to the students flooding in and out of the hallway. He promised to come, I thought. Surely he wasn't going to stand me up.
Five minutes passed and then ten. Twenty. Thirty minutes.
My hope began to die out. I had just seen Lydia and Mr Emmett, I couldn't stand being here alone any much longer. Not when the other students had their friends and family show up for them. So I reached to pack it all up, merely marking my attendance.
That was when he showed up.
My breath caught in my throat the second I saw Ethan West. The last person I'd ever expected, standing merely inches from my face.
"I hope I'm not late," He said. This was the boy who refused to be seen in
