Jump On Three

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>-Rules are my favorite.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>-Order relaxes me.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>-Tattooed boys with shaggy hair and soulful eyes are strictly off-limits.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I've recently come to the conclusion I'm bad at boyfriends. But as terrible as I am at choosing them even </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>would never consider my sister's former crush-tall growly enigmatic Ivan Sokolov. That's a line I won't cross even if Delilah is </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>way</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> over him.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ivan is just my swim teammate.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The guy who walks me to class and shares his playlists.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And he's the person who keeps stealing </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>my</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> study room. Sure there are others but room three is </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>mine</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. Which I let him know in no uncertain terms.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The thing is Ivan thinks my bluntness is adorable. He's not scared off by my dozens of questions or need to move. My quirks are cute to him.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And I...well I can't stop looking at him even though I shouldn't. I also can't resist following him-just a little-to find out his secrets.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I know better. Bullies and a lifethat hasn't always been kind have toughened me up. I'm a realist and this is black and white.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Except when Ivan's lips touch mine and my orderly world is turned upside down I suddenly start to see how beautiful gray can be.</span></p><p></p>