very romantic to talk about in a movie or

slept t

lly doze off, I

ey were large, with long, nimble fingers that could've belonged to a

e tattoo that covered his left forearm. It sort of looked like a b

alarm woke me before I

la

my alarm wasn't enough, I ha

off, it's been beeping

way to start my

s even less of a morning person than I was, and everyone in the house knew it. We'd all fac

until I hit the snooze button. I rubbed my face a few times before peeking

loud?" Lily snapped, "I could hear that thing a

ve done any good. "Sorry, Lil," I yawned, "I'm a heavy

hley early by the lockers today, so if you're not downstairs in twenty

ly would take the Jeep and leave me to walk to school. Her and I shared a Jeep, although she used it more often than not. The girl collected

choice was my favorite well-worn jeans, a blue tanktop, and my favorite cotton zip-up hoodie. I didn't bothe

s my mom: dark brown eyes and long, frizzy red hair that I could never manage to completely tame. In fact, it was more than ju

we were identical. When I showed up to live with him, my dad had made

ment I saw my dad for the

, although she never say we

as "going away for awhile," it really meant that she had met a new guy and they were going to run off to god-knows-where and get high together. Even at

ther friend of my mom's. He had looked shocked to see her. His whole fac

hile my mom and dad talked in hushed voices in the other room. They were in t

as on the verge of tears. This time, I was the one who got pulled aside. He explained to me that he was my dad, and I'd be

as r

and I still hadn'

d my dad and Grace had been th

or. I tried not to think about my mom or that night

night – not at me, but at my mom. She had never told him about me, so he had no idea I existed until that night. He told me several ti

was a couple of times, but she had always deflected. She told me that he wasn't ar

ly different world. I later learned from Sebastian that I was t

with her. He'd already come clean to Grace about the encounter years before I ended up on their door

nder of the fact that Grace and dad's relationship wasn't perfec

kinds of things to me

ible, but there were still times when I'd catch her l

ep breath, and pu

y, huh, Clark? Just rehash the

– I'm literally le

he stairs two at a time. Lily was positioned at the front do

the door, "I literally haven't seen her all weekend. If I'm going to be gone nex

my tardiness as I climbed into the