Megan POV

“Just be careful,” Ben says before I leave the house the next day. “I’m happy for you, I truly am. But be careful, okay? I’d hate to see anything bad happen to you.”

“I will be,” I promise him. “I already know how awful it feels to even think about anything bad happening to you. I don’t want to have to give you that same feeling towards me. I’m going to be super careful about it.”

“And you’ll remember what I said?” he asks.

“Of course,” I reply. “I can’t forget it.”

That part is a little too genuine. I can’t forget what Ben said to me about...