Last Second: Second Kiss Trilogy Book Three by Natalie Palmer

Author:Natalie Palmer [Palmer, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Good Harbor Publishing
Published: 2020-10-09T05:00:00+00:00

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Thirty-Six

I have another one for you,” Jess said over the phone as I was trying to finish up the closing paragraph of a three-page essay due the next morning. We still talked every night. I wasn’t sure if we should anymore. Maybe it was wrong for us to hold onto each other like that. My mom worried about it. She said we should give ourselves more space so that both of us could move on and experience other people. She said it wasn’t healthy for us to keep each other in limbo like this. But I couldn’t bear to live in a world that I couldn’t talk about with Jess. It would feel like riding a bike with one leg.

“I’ve been wondering,” I said, saving the final draft and clicking print. “I wasn’t sure if you were going to give me any more journal entries now that I’m not your girlfriend.”

“What does being my girlfriend have to do with it?”

“Izzy might get jealous if she finds out that you’re emailing me insights into your soul.”

“I’m not a good enough writer for these to be insights into my soul and besides, Izzy wouldn’t care. She shouldn’t care.”

“Are you two dating yet?”

He paused for a moment like my question threw him off a little. “I don’t know, not really.”

I paused then, too, because his answer threw me off, but not just a little. I wasn’t surprised. How could I be? Of course, he would date her. Why wouldn’t he? But for some reason I just didn’t think a girl like that was Jess’s type. It was too easy, too predictable, too fast.

“You still there?” he asked.

“I was just trying to picture it, you know. You and her.”

“Don’t do that to yourself. It doesn’t end well. Trust me, I know.”

“Thanks for the advice.”

“I just emailed it.”

“I better go then, so I can concentrate.”

“Okay,” he said then hesitated again, and I knew it was because he almost said it, like I had almost done so many times over the past several nights. That was the biggest adjustment since we ended things, not ending our conversations with that four-letter word, the four-letter word that was still true for me and I knew it was still true for him. But to say it, to say we loved each other, would mean that we hadn’t really let go, that we weren’t really moving on. So, he cleared his throat and I cleared mine until finally he said, “Good night.”

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