Jess's POV

I had no time to argue before Kevin Mullins had entered the coffee shop. It turned out that he was right outside the shop when he'd called, and he was looking right through the window at me. I would think this was strange and not to mention creepy, but right now I'm too anxious about this whole meet up thing that we're doing here to think about anything else.

"Kevin, you know that you should probably warn me before you go ahead and startle me like that right?"

He takes a seat where "Mr. Muffins" was sitting before, right in front of me. It turned out that I misheard his name when he was introduced, because instead of hearing Mullins I heard Muffins. That completely messed up my thinking of when Kevin gave me that surprise phone call.

He sighs. "Yeah, I know, but I kind of wanted to surprise you."

I mutter under my breath. "Congrats, it worked..."

"Well, anyways. I was wondering if you were available later on today, or maybe even now. I was thinking that since there are going to be some firework displays this coming evening, we might as well go ahead and save us some spots in the grass right now! Or also maybe we can go to the ice cream shop nearby the streets near the downtown area. But also perhaps—"

"Kevin, first of all, I think you're getting too ahead of yourself... Have I ever really told you that I was already dating Darcy?"

He turns pale, gulps then says, "Oh... Um, no you didn't..."

"Oh, I'm so sorry Kevin. You seem like an, um, a real nice person. But..." My voice trails at the sound of my own guilt twinging in my voice. "You know what. I think I should go now. I need some air."

I excuse myself from my seat, grabbing my book and coffee as I get up. I throw the remaining of the coffee in its cup in the trash. I don't even know why I'd bothered with that disgusting drink in the first place. I don't even like coffee!

I run out the front door of the coffee shop, thinking that I would be able to catch my breath outside where there is more fresh air for me to engulf. But it doesn't help. I pant there on the curb, leaning down putting my hands on my shins to regain composure. I close my eyes as I suck in another heavy breath. Finally when I feel a little better and a little less dizzy, I begin to think about Kevin. Even though I have no doubts about not wanting to be with him, I feel guilty for the guy. Becca says that he's like a little twerp, well not so little anymore—he towers over me—but he's always forever in all of our hearts our twerp. Nothing more, nothing less.

A/N: hey everyone! Sorry that this update was a little late; I had the busiest weekend in the universe! Anyways, I really hope that you enjoyed this small chapter. And if you haven't seen the previous one about how Kevin found Jess, go check that out now! Anyways, I wanted to let you guys know that I'm going to be working on my Alteration book through and through from the dedications page at the very start, to the acknowledgements at the very end. I really feel guilty for letting you guys down in my announcement last week about Alteration only having ten chapters available here on Wattpad, but it's something that I feel is necessary for the true success of the book, if you know what I mean. So to make it up to you fans, I solemnly swear to finish writing the book so that it one day get published somehow for you guys to read. I know that I have some trouble quite often with perseverance of writing books. I often never finish writing my stories, because I often get bored of the idea after some time, but Alteration... I have a good feeling about this one guys.

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