"Don't say it, Miss Everheart… Don't say we can't be together."
"Liam, you know I'm your teacher. The world… it wouldn't understand what we have. The school board, the parents… they'd call it a scandal."
"Since when is truth a scandal? What we feel… It's the most real assignment I've ever been given. You're not just teaching me literature, you're teaching my heart how to beat."
Munch—! Munch—!
"My job is to grade your papers, Liam. Not to be the subject of your… youthful infatuation."
"It's not infatuation! It's destiny! When you analyze Shakespeare's sonnets, I don't hear poetry. I hear you… explaining the blueprint of us."
"So cringe."
Aurelia's brows pinched in a thin line as the words spilled from the television screen, hearing the corny dialogue.
Her hand dug back into the large bowl of popcorn beside her, scooping another fistful. She shoved it in her mouth, puffing her cheeks like a squirrel as she chewed.
Munch—! Munch—!
