Lake should have known that Ayanna was bad for the heart.
It all started when he found himself staring at her or caught himself thinking about her all day or when every little thing she did was attractive to him. The way he bit her straw, or the way she fixed her hair, all of those were little things he noticed and he treasured. He knew something was amiss then. He did not know when it started or what triggered it. But whatever this feeling was, he was willing to treasure it. He was more invested in it than anything he had ever been invested to.
Except Ayanna decided to avoid him.
He knew she was avoiding him. It was her texts. They seemed like a bunch of bull she came up with. It was not even written the way she would usually text. She did not use any emoji and she used proper punctua
