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“Johnny?”
I nodded slowly.
Her eyes widened then. “Oh my god!” Pointing a finger at my face, she whisper-shouted, “You lied to me! Something happened the other week, didn’t it?”
“No.” I shook my head, cheeks flaming. “Nothing happened.”
“He was staring at you back there—like completely eyeballing you,” she hissed, looking a little giddy. “Did something happen? Please tell me something happened…”
“I promise you that nothing happened between us,” I strangled out, regretting ever mentioning it. “And he wasn’t eyeballing me.”
“But you wanted him to?”
I opened my mouth to deny it, but Claire interrupted me.
“Ha! Don’t even lie. I can see right through you.” She snickered. “Even your ears are blushing.”
“Claire, please, you can’t tell anyone!” I blurted out, mortified.
“I already promised you that I wouldn’t.”
I sagged in relief. “Thank you.”
“But you should know that he was looking at you, Shan. Like seriously looking at you.” Claire clapped her hands together, squealing loudly. “Oh god, this makes me so happy.”
“No, he wasn’t… And I don’t… I can’t… I just…” Choking on my words, I inhaled a calming breath and tried again. “We had a fight that night in his car.”
“A fight?” Claire’s brows shot up. “About what?”
“It doesn’t matter,” I mumbled, flushing. “And I…”
“You what?”
“He dropped me home again on the Friday before my birthday.”
Her entire face lit up. “Oh my god!”
“And then I threw up in front of him,” I glumly admitted. “Possibly on him.”
He was very close to the danger zone.
While he held back my hair.
Claire cringed in sympathy. “In his car?”
“No,” I replied weakly. “In school. At my locker.”
She smiled sadly. “And he dropped you home afterward?”
“And then I…”
“You what, Shan?”
“I went to the pub with him.”
“The pub?” she screeched. “What pub?”
I thought about it for a moment before I remembered the name. “Biddies, I think?”
