Chapter 131. Shhh… I’m Eating You

I never expected a library date to turn into this kind of chaos, but with Sophia, nothing ever stays simple. We’d been dancing around each other for weeks—flirty texts after class, stolen kisses in the dorm hallway, that one night last month where we almost went all the way before her roommate barged in. Drama followed us like a bad habit. She was the bold one, the artist with wild curls and a laugh that could light up a room, while I, Elena, was the quiet bookworm, always overthinking everything. Our first real date? A “book date” in the university library, because apparently sharing poetry under fluorescent lights was romantic. Or so she said.

We settled into a secluded corner table on the third floor, stacks of dusty tomes shielding us from the main reading area. The air smelled like old paper and faint coffee from the vending machine downstairs. Sophia slid into the chair across from me, her knee brushing mine under the table as she unpacked her notebook. “Okay, read me so