He Had Rules for Me, But Passion for Her

After three years together, Xander set a rule: we couldn't hold hands for more than three minutes a day.

He said we had to meet at the summit---that we absolutely couldn't let ourselves get distracted before the SAT exams.

I believed him. I suppressed my desires and stayed up late studying with him.

The night the scores came out, there was a class party. I went to find him with my results---scores high enough to get into the same university as him.

But at the bar, I caught him pinning Summer, the worst student in our class, against the wall, kissing her with wild, unrestrained passion.