Chapter Fifty-Five
Venessa’s Point of View
The warm, bright days of summer had arrived and passed like a beautiful, slow-moving dream, leaving behind a collection of memories that felt completely different from the heavy drama of our past. For the very first time since Khalid and I had entered each other's lives, the constant, annoying noise of the public eye, the scary threat of crazy ex-girlfriends, and the intense pressure of our fake relationship contract completely faded into the background. We had the entire sports off-season to ourselves. It was three glorious months of warm weather, clear blue skies, and uninterrupted time to figure out what we truly meant to each other away from the flashing lights of the media cameras.
Even though we were deeply in love and trying to build som
