For the record, I wanted you first, but you were with Susie, and you told me we could only be friends. And that, Benjamin Ashford, was just how long it took me to get the nerve to ask you to be more than friends. You were my first crush long before that, and I want you to be my last. And because you’re so STUPID, you didn’t think to look at the beginning. Genesis Chapter 1. I lifted my gaze from the paper to her straight face, then I opened her Bible to Genesis Chapter 1. After the first three words “In the beginning,” she drew a caret symbol and inserted “there was Benjamin Ashford” with a
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