Lily
Caiden and I got back on the bus with my hand still in his and neither of us said anything on our way back. The minute we got to the stop right next to the campus, we both let go of the others hand. We didn’t say much but smiled at each other as we both left for our respective dorms. The smile never left my face and the bond was so warm I felt like I could fly.
Elias didn't call that night. I sat on the edge of my bed with my phone in my hands and watched the minutes tick past eight o’clock, then nine and finally ten. Thea came in around ten-thirty and flopped onto her bed and talked to me for a while about someone she had met before she fell asleep, but I stayed up. Elias always called, every night, without fail, but tonight, there was nothing.
At eleven-forty, I texted him. Hey
