" Behind me, my phone buzzes with a new text.
Nan looks around me suspiciously. “Why are you hiding your cell phone under your pillow?”
Busted. “Because I thought you were Mama,” I answer truthfully.
“And you didn’t want her to know…what?”
I exhale slowly, trying to decide how much to reveal to her. I reach for my phone and drag it out. “You kind of caught me and Ryder texting.”
“You and Ryder? Why is that a secret? Wait--do you mean you two were sexting?”
“Oh my God! No. Eww!” That’s just so…tacky.
She shrugs. “Well, then, what’s the big deal?”
I realize there’s only one way to make her understand what a huge, enormous, monumental deal it is--I have to tell her the truth.
So I do.
When I’m finished, Nan just smiles and says, “It’s about damn time you put that boy out of his misery. He’s only been in love with you since…well, since forever.”
I roll my eyes. “No, you’ve got it backward. We’ve hated each other since forever.”
“Love, hate,” she says with a smile. “Such a fine line between the two, isn’t there?”
And you know what? I realize then that she’s right. "

― Kristi Cook , Magnolia (Magnolia Branch, #1)