"Fuck! Why the hell did I say that? That was basically a confession!"
The moment Kiera stepped into the dorm room, she threw herself face-first onto the bed, muffling a frustrated scream into her pillow. Then, with all the grace of a flailing cat, she started punching and kicking the mattress like it had personally wronged her.
"So embarrassing…! What the hell is he gonna think of me now?"
Just thinking about Rin made her brain short-circuit. She buried her face deeper into the sheets, but it was no use. The memory played again in her head, clearer than it had any right to be.
—If I'd met you before Leo, maybe things would've been different.
She groaned into the pillow, clutching it like a lifeline.
"Stupid, stupid, stupid—why did I say that?!"
Then, like a switch flipped, she sat up and pointed an accusing finger at the air.
