TRIGGER WARNING: This chapter briefly describes the interaction between two girls. Readers' discretion is advised.
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I didn’t want to pull away. When I felt Esmeralda’s lips on mine, it was everything I had been fighting against for so long. Her kiss was full of all the fire and passion I had tried to ignore, and for that brief moment, I let myself get lost in it. In her.
But then reality crashed down on me.
I had to pull back, even though it felt like tearing a piece of myself away. I couldn’t do this. Not with her. Not with anyone. As I hurried down the hallway, my heart pounded so loudly in my ears that it drowned out everything else. I didn’t stop until I reached my room, slamming the door behind me and leaning against it, breathing hard, trying to regain c
