Kissed and Missed

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>So before you judge me too harshly for what I'm about to tell you I think it's important to lead with the disclaimer that this is not like me. At all.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>If somebody Googled </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>cautious responsible people-pleasing eldest daughter</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> a picture would probably come up of me baking twenty-four loaves of banana bread for all the neighbors in our building after my roommate flooded the bathroom.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>So as you can see I am not the kind of person to catch feelings for my ex's tech-billionaire father after spending three days stranded at his house over Christmas.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nor am I the type to keep in touch with him after I go home keeping up the façade of friendship when the unspoken </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>if only things were different</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> hangs over our heads.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now it's Valentine's Day and Julian Ballard is on my doorstep.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It shouldn't change anything. After all cautious responsible people-pleasing girls do not fall in love with their ex-girlfriend's father.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>...Oops.</em></p>