Sean
"Not done yet." I pressed my finger on her lips. "You feel all of that, but most of all, you feel like there is no one else on the planet that will make you feel as alive as you are with me. You know it."
"That s a bold statement."
"I m a bold person, can t you tell?"
"Maybe it s okay for you, but it isn t for me. Anything you give in class, I will feel like I haven t really earned it. Anything you take away, I ll feel like it s out of spite. No matter what, I ll still feel that way if we do this."
"Then let s not label this. Let s just—"
"Keep fucking each other?" she finished.
I held back my anger
.
"I hate when you say it like that! You make it sound so dirty."
"But isn t that what we re doing? Isn t that what you want?" she snapped back.
"No. No it isn t actually. I want to go on a date—dates
— with you
. I want us to get to know each other."
She still wouldn t give in.