Lily
I didn't know what the hell was happening with me. Why had I thought stepping out of the house with Adrian would ease the anxiety I had been feeling over having them over? Isn't that why one had girlfriends for? Although, it wasn't a bad anxiety, per se — everything was fine until the sense of being family and the possibility of losing that hit me all at once. Without realizing it, I had been unconsciously trying to grab hold, feeling a new sense of belonging each time I found Wallace standing in front of my door with Adrian not far behind.
I was supposed to hate Adrian, but somehow hate was not the first thought that came to mind each time I saw him. Definitely not when, in a reckless kind of way, I had stepped out of my house with him, and now we were out of Radiant Springs, and
