After Kai and Imani walked back into the room twenty minutes ago, I had sat tensely in the basement and gritted my teeth. I hadn’t been able to stop since Maddie and Imani had started working on their project in the back of the room because Imani kept looking over at Kai and Kai kept looking over at Imani. It was back and forth, back and forth, and I didn’t know if I could handle any more. I needed to know what they were to each other. I didn’t want to sit back and let this happen. If they were friends, I wanted to know if they were friends. If they just had s*x, I wanted to know that they just had s*x. If they loved each other … I took a deep breath. If they loved each other, I needed to know. Both Imani and Kai deserved to be happy. But so did I. And I didn’t want to fall back into

