f**k, I felt so f*****g stupid. I tightened my hand around the steering wheel and pulled up to Vera’s house. After getting out of the car and slamming the door, I stormed up to the house door and banged on it hard enough to wake the neighbors. But I didn’t give a s**t right now. I was f*****g pissed at myself for doing that s**t. “Vera!” I shouted. “Open up.” All I wanted to do was go home and erase Imani from my f*****g head. I tried to do that every night, tried to shake away these feelings of her, but I f*****g couldn’t. I didn’t want to see her again this weekend. Maybe not this week either. I shouldn’t have ever let that slip out of my mouth. “VERA!” A couple moments later, Blaise Harleen—who was apparently Vera’s boyfriend now—opened the front door. “f**k, dude. Why are you cal

