“There are boys out there Kaya.” He whispered lowly, “Ones that deserve you,” he added, fingers still brushing mine, “then they are beasts,” his jaw clenched when he said this moving closer so my breath hitched, “ones that can hurt you.”

“And I don’t want to see you get hurt.”

The words echoed in my mind as I sat cross-legged on Ally's bed the book I had gotten from my confusing thief friend in my hands.  I could feel Ally’s eyes on me, watching me closely. Her mouth open from all I had just told her. I wasn’t going to allow myself to be confused all alone when I had...