Buried secrets, two girls with the same face, and a boy who loved too much.
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When Travis and Nicole meet on a bus for the first time, he thinks she's his ex, Rachel, who broke his heart two years ago. But he doesn't understand why she's pretendin...
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BEING THE GIRLFRIEND OF the guy who'd truly seen me was... everything. He was like a dream come true. My fantasies come to life. Everything I'd reached out for in the darkest hours of the night, he was giving them to me.
Little by little.
And it meant everything to me.
Travis: What's the most spontaneous thing you've ever done?
Me: when I followed you to Brooklyn.
Cornelia was warming up to me. We fought when we didn't agree with each other's opinions. Her remarks were still as snappy and sharp as ever, but that was what made her Cornelia, I guess. I couldn't imagine her any other way.
She still wanted me to practice with her, though two weeks had passed and there was no hope of me being on the dance team. According to Katie and the school's newspaper, they were learning a choreo for a national contest that would happen in two months.
I sat in the library, the school's newspaper in my hand, staring at the newly recruited members of the dance team.
Layla. Kerrie. Katie. Raine. And six other girls.
I should've been there too.
But I wasn't.
Travis: Blue
Travis: You didn't tell me what your favorite flower is.
Sighing, I dropped the newspaper, shoved my reading glasses into their case, and hurried out of the library. I typed out my response on the way to the cafeteria.
Me: hydrangeas
My friends were already seated, discussing college applications. Merlinda obviously wanted Yale. Marilyn wanted Harvard. Jahdiel wanted NYU.
Juilliard.
That was what I wanted.
But with each passing day, I found that dream fading bit by bit. I yearned to dance, but something in me had slowly given up the battle. Maybe my family was right after all, and I was supposed to put my mind to use.
So, just like my family wanted, I studied a lot, spending hours in the library so I could get my grades to A+. Later, when I wasn't so numb, I'd decide on another college.
Travis: Why am I not surprised?
Me: You know me better than anyone; that's why :)
I might be numb to everything else around me, but not when Travis was concerned. He still made me laugh, made me feel. And honestly? That was what kept me going. Because I had something to look forward to when I got up from bed.
