“I never wanted to hurt you,” she whispers after a moment. “I fought myself that first year with Kellan, tried my hardest not to go to you at every turn but wanting to more than anything. I told myself you were my friend, so I wasn’t doing anything wrong by spending time with you, but I could never convince myself enough to actually believe it. Even though you and I never did anything sexually, emotionally, I was cheating every day, all day, because you were all I thought about.”
