" I fucked it up. Give me another chance. Please.” If we’d reached the begging stage, I’d drop to my knees this second.
“Why?”
Time to lay it all out there. “Because I fell in love with you this summer.” I framed her face in my hands as she gasped. “Because you fell in love with me too. And because he’ll never kiss you like this.”
Then I crushed my mouth to hers. "

― Devney Perry , Stone Princess (Clifton Forge, #3)