A few days passed without anything much happening. Audrey still hadn’t heard from Kenny and there was an ache forming in her chest. It took her some time to figure out what it meant, but then it hit her—she missed him. She longed to hear his voice, see his smile, or just sit and talk to him. She wanted to see him. She wanted to spend time with him.
But this realization had deeper implications. If she was at the point of missing him, then her feelings for him ran deeper than she’d thought they had. And that was dangerous. Not just because it could lead to something more serious, but also because he wasn’t currently talking to her. If she was going to fall for someone, it had to be in a situation that made it more stable and present than whatever this thing with Kenny was. She couldn’t let
