Chapter 20

Riley POV

It’s been almost a week since I last saw Julia and Nina, and it’s been one of the worst times of my life. After I finished speaking to my Mom at the hospital I went to Julia’s room even though I already knew that she would be gone, I still had to see for myself because there was still a small nagging part of me trying to convince myself that she was still there, but there was no trace of her ever being in that room, and it hit me like a tone of bricks. In a way that I wasn’t expecting.

The girl has been on my mind since the first moment that I saw her and as much as I’ve been confused about my seemingly insane fascination with her, it was at that moment, as I stood in her empty hospital room that I realized that it wasn’t any insane fascination that kept bringing me back to her, it was her, just her.

That sassy attitude of hers that I got to see the first time that we met and that cheeky smile that she gets when she doesn’t think anyone is looking,