These characters aren't mine. Never will be.
She's dangerous to me.
Guys like me aren't supposed to hang around girls like her. She's Ms. Popular Cheerleader. Prom Queen To Be. Top of the high school hierarchy.
Guys like me survive high school by being below the radar. If you're not popular, you're nothing. If you're smart and not popular, God help you. If you're smart, not popular, and you're hanging around with the most beautiful girl in school then you're just asking for some jock to put the hammer down on you for trying to be something you're not.
And even that isn't the worst that could happen.
Hanging around someone like Claire is really dangerous when they share secrets with you. It starts to make you feel special. You start to think they like you. You start to trust them.
And if you're not really careful, you start to love them.
And when you get back to school-- when they remember the way things are-- they start to avoid you. They make excuses. They look away.
They break your heart.
The smart thing to do is to walk away right now. She's trouble. She's danger. She's everything I can't have.
She can walk through the fire and not get burned, but I'm going to go up in flames if I stay in her life. I know it.
But I've looked into those angel eyes of her and I'm already lost.