When both of us got to the mall, I could not stop thinking about what Jace told me in the car; the words kept lingering in my head, and not just his own but also the ones that my mom told me. I started to think there must be more to the kindness that he's been showing me, which makes me feel very suspicious, and I hate the feeling so much because it makes me unsettled.

“We don't have the whole day.” Jace reminded me when he noticed that I was completely off all through our movements in the mall.

I decided to stop bothering myself about the things that...