Well, I plan to write a yelp review on your tour guide experience, so you better bring your A game.

For you? Always.

I fight the urge to melt into a warm puddle right here in this seat. Instead, I write back:

5 Stars, here we come.

Gotta go, but will text when we settle in for the night.

Click here

Screw the blurry line.

I hit send and immediately feel a swell of nerves. Sometimes I really wish I had more of a filter. Then again, what fun would that be? I just hope Anwar doesn’t mind my bouts of bravado.

I look around the car to distract myself, but Chase and Cleo are equally absorbed by their phones, and Logan seems fully focused on the road. With nowhere else to turn, I glance back down at my phone. Mercifully, the three dots appear, indicating that Anwar is already typing.

Body heat on the beach? Way too much sand for that.

My heart promptly sinks into my stomach. I twirl a strand of hair between my fingers, my thoughts pulsing. How could I have ruined the vibe so quickly? Why do I have to be so damn eager all the time? Now Anwar is going to think I’m a total—

But the heater in my car is broken. That’s a much better place to keep each other warm?

I exhale, letting the rush of anxiety melt away. Maybe being forward has its advantages, after all. I smile as I tap out my response.

Look at you, always thinking ahead.

Gotta go. Will text tonight when we settle in for the night.

Click here

“All right, the phone five is over,” Logan announces. “You all should’ve seen yourselves. You looked like a bunch of zombies getting your next brain fix.”

“In that case, was anyone else’s fix as delicious as mine?” I ask, dropping my phone into the shoebox first.

“My mom told me to say hi to everyone,” Cleo answers. “So, not particularly.”

“I think Amelia meant to say ‘salacious,’” Chase replies. “Judging from the dopey look on her face, I think someone got a love note from her brooding vampire boy.”

“I know you mean that as a negative, but I’d let him nibble my neck any day.”

The walls of Charvan immediately echo with a series of grossed-out groans.

“On that unnerving note,” Logan says, “we’ll be arriving at our first destination in ten minutes.”

I laugh and don’t fight the massive smile that spreads across my face.

There’s just so much to look forward to, I don’t even know where to begin.