Fantastic, so I had dug myself further into the hole. Dig up, Avery. I made it sound like we would be taking a trip there together. Like we would continue this whatever-we-were-doing longer than the arrangement. My heart twisted. “I mean, if you are ever in Vancouver.” He maintained eye contact and my stomach somersaulted. When he finally spoke, his tone was teasing. “I can’t just walk into a random high school alone. I’ll get arrested. You’d have to come with me.” A grin spread across my face. “Deal.” “Deal.” He rolled his eyes and grabbed my hands. “Come on, Adams, let’s go look at pictures of teenaged dorks.” “Of course you were class president.” I ran my finger along the cold glass in front of his senior year photo—a younger version of him with the same confident, smug smile. “Yo

