" I shrug and shuffle my toe across the carpet in front of me, feeling silly. " So? It's a compliment being like you." All the humor evaporates from his face and his honey-brown eyes. Within seconds he has me in his arms and he hugs me like I'm the most important thing in the world to him. " Don't ever change, Callie Lawrence," he whispers in my hair. " Promise me you won't. "