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“I’m not.” Hunter paused. “It’s just a girl.”
“Prove it.”
Hunter’s pride wanted him to refuse—but he really couldn’t blame Nick for not trusting him. He pulled the phone out from under the blanket, unlocked the screen until Kate’s texts were visible, and tossed it.
Nick took a quick glance, then tossed it back. The edge was gone from his voice. “Kate? The one who just transferred?”
Hunter looked up in surprise—though her name was clearly at the top of the screen. “How did you know?
“She asked me about you today.”
“She did?” That statement was full of highs and lows. She’d asked about him—but she’d asked Nick. Had she sat with Nick again?
He didn’t care. He didn’t.
Yeah, he did.
God, he needed to stop being such an idiot.
But he couldn’t stop thinking about her. “What’d she say?”
“She asked if I knew why you were ditching school.”
His heart felt like it was beating faster. No, it felt like it wanted a break from being inside his rib cage. His phone was a warm weight in his hand, and he wanted to pull it out from under the blanket to see if she’d written again. “And what did you say?”
“Ah . . . I said no.”
Right.
Hunter rolled back to look at the ceiling.
Nick said, “Do you know her?”
Hunter shook his head.
“Interested?”
Yes. Immensely. “Not really.” Hunter looked down at Casper, who was blowing puffs of warm breath against his arm. “She seemed into you, though.”
Nick snorted. “Yeah, in a way that made Quinn want to pull her hair out by the roots. I think she’s just friendly.” He paused. “You don’t have to worry about me being interested.”
Well, at least that was something. “You and Quinn getting serious?”
“Something like that.”
“I think Kate’s a player.”
“Yeah?”
Hunter pushed the hair back from his face and sighed. “She climbed in my car this morning, but then started texting some other guy.”
“Quinn saw her get into a truck with someone yesterday.”
Well, there went that. Hunter let go of his phone. It fell off the air mattress and onto the carpet.
Nick continued, “To hear Quinn tell it, he was—well, I’m not going to repeat her phrase, but let’s just say Kate seemed into him.”
Hunter didn’t say anything.
