There are things we don’t talk about, and just such a secret brought 17-year-old Sara to the love of her life. Then he saved her from it.
Ethan Harris was the boy I hadn’t been able to stop staring at since he moved in next door, the boy that every girl with eyes had swooned over at school for the past two years. The boy that had zeroed in on me from day one and refused to set his sights anywhere else. He must have asked me out a dozen different times, and every time I’d turned him down. The guy just wouldn’t take no for an answer. I guess he wasn’t used to hearing it very often.