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Chapter 23 I woke up to a sunny, albeit chilly, Saturday morning. I opened my eyes and was greeted by the warmly decorated bedroom of Jasmine. It’s certainly a far cry from waking up in the cinderblock prison of Daniel’s dorm room. I reached over to my nightstand and picked up my phone. There was a message from Lauren already. A heart emoji followed by, “Last night was amazing.” G didn’t indicate they’d had sex, but I figured making out with someone you really love is amazing by itself. After all, I loved making out with Kaylee. That was amazing. I replied with a heart-eyed smile and added, “Yes, it was.” I pried myself out of my warm bed, sat up, and stretched before I slowly walked out to the kitchen in my bedtime T-shirt and shorts. Morgan was already in the kitchen eating toast. “How’d last night go?” she queried. “Amazing,” I replied, echoing Lauren’s sentiment. “She finally came out to me. Well, I mean, she didn’t come out exactly, but she told me she loved me and we’re

Chapter 16 I enjoyed a nice quiet night just being myself. I turned off my phone, cuddled up in my bed and resumed reading The Heroine Prophecy. It almost felt as if I was Daniel again - but I was still in Sydney's body. Maybe this is all I needed. Relax with a good book - one in which I started back when I was Daniel - to get in touch with who I am.  After reading several chapters, I was itching to start the new book just in case I saw Kaylee.  So I switched to reading The Fated Crown. After several chapters of that, I finally got tired and decided to call it a night. I was looking forward to discussing some of the book’s twists with Kaylee. In fact, that’s all I could think about during class. I found myself daydreaming and realized I forgot to write down ten minutes worth of lecture notes. When I got to our Wednesday study session, I noticed nobody was talking and everyone seemed depressed. It was very unlike them. My guilty conscience immediately went to Aiden and Ella.  On