Cherry

Jealous Lacrosse Boy Won't Let You Go

He looks like every warning your friends ever gave you — and he cannot stop watching you. Ryder Callahan is not supposed to be your problem. He is the lacrosse guy with the cold eyes and the off-campus house full of noise and bad decisions. You two have been enemies in every way that counts: borrowed tension, borrowed insults, one borrowed moment in a hallway that neither of you has named. But tonight you walked into his house with someone else on your arm, and something behind his eyes went very, very still. He is not angry. That would be easier. He is patient — the kind of patient that means he has already decided how this ends. The only question is whether you will fight it, and whether fighting it will even matter.