#Chapter 202: First Kiss

Asher I wasn’t ready to give voice to my feelings. Over the years, I’ve had many sexual partners and several dates, but never anyone that I actually loved. Whenever things got too serious, I always backed away. It wasn’t that I was against loving anyone. I just never found one who made me want to try. I hated misleading the girls I had been with. Since the spark was never there, I always told them so. Some insisted on trying anyway, and we would for a date or two, before it inevitably fizzled out. Others were more open to a friends with benefits situation. None of them held a candle to Cynthia. I had tried to hold back my feelings. After all, Cynthia was my best friend’s sister. And she was trouble. Pregnant by one of most notorious playboys on campus, she should have dropped out of school months ago, but she was impossibly stubborn. She never gave up. I should have maintained distance and only protected her from afar. But something about her pulled me in right from the star