“Why didn’t you tell me?” Baron asked me for the tenth time that day.

After my confession, the rest of the event had gone by in a blur. Baron and Aaron had walked up to me and while I was scared of what Aaron had to say, I could not melt into Baron’s arms because his look too had scared me away.

For a second on that field, with everyone watching, I thought the boys would lash out and go all angry at me. But to my surprise, Aaron had been gentle, trying to ask why. Baron ...