Chapter 16
At what point does watching someone become stalking? Every day, I go to school and look for Addie. I stand by my locker like some pathetic asshole, waiting for her to walk down the hallway.
She always smells fantastic.
It’s stupid how many times I’ve had to force myself not to shove my nose in her hair and take a long whiff.
Which is fucking crazy.
Thinking about doing the same thing to any other girl makes my skin crawl. Thinking about running my nose up the smooth skin on Addie’s neck? I’m hard in an instant.
I’ve replayed our almost-kiss in my head so many times, it’s morphed into a fantasy where I yank her into my chest and kiss the hell out of her. I fucking wish that’s what I’d done.
She’s started making eye contact again though.
When those gorgeous brown eyes meet mine, everything inside me stills. For those few precious moments, I get to experience a peace like I’ve never known.
It’s intoxicating. And then she looks away, and the hole in my chest grows a little bigger. One of these days, she’ll start dating someone, and I’ll finally have to give her up.
Fuck knows I’m not good enough for her. And I sure as hell don’t believe her family would think otherwise, even if Addie still has feelings for me.
It’s all an unattainable fantasy.