Kindred Spirits

I was excited and nervous to see Ryker in the morning, but he welcomed me with a smile as he jogged over from talking to Naiara.

“So I got in trouble for last night,” Ryker whispers in my ear.

I look past him to Naiara.

“How did she find out?”

“The window was open ...” he says, watching me. It takes me a moment to realize that she’d heard me calling Ryker’s name while I was ... My eyes go wide and