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“I’m sure.” I plaster on a smile.
“Okay then.” He releases the straps of his bag. “You’ll let me know if you change your mind?”
“I will.” I nod.
“Okay, cool.” He runs a hand through his hair as he turns and heads to his seat on the opposite side of the room.
“Not your type?” I look to my left to see Alec’s eyes on me.
“I wouldn’t say that. I just don’t like being set up.”
“But you said no before you knew you were being set up.”
“Were you listening to my conversation?” I ask, already knowing that he was.
“Hello.” He gestures to the small walkway that separates our desks. “It’s kind of impossible not to.”
“Uh huh.” I roll my eyes at him.
“So you’re really not going to the dance?” he asks, lowering his voice when the teacher enters the room.
“Nope,” I mouth, shaking my head.
“Why not?” he asks, leaning in my direction.
“Because I don’t want to.”
“Well, for what it’s worth, I think you should. But, not with that tool.” He gestures toward Teller. “But I think you should come with me and Lucy.”
“And why would I do that?”
“Because having you there will make it a hundred times more enjoyable for me. Selfish, I know, but it doesn’t make it any less true.”
“You’re going with Lulu. I doubt you’ll even notice that I’m not there.” I fall silent when the teacher stands and begins passing out our review papers.
“Not true,” he whispers.
“Yeah, okay.” I snort.
“Just think about it.” His bottom lip droops in the most pathetic pout I’ve ever seen.
If only he knew how badly I want to go to this dance withhim.
The pit in my stomach deepens further with the knowledge that as of today, Alec Murray will never be mine. He made sure of that when he asked my best friend to be his girlfriend.
Not that he had any interest in me to begin with, but what little hope I was holding onto went up in a cloud of smoke when Lulu broke the news this morning.
Honestly, I’m still trying to process it.
I ignore the feeling of Alec’s eyes on me as I slide my book from my desk and drop it onto the rack under my chair.
I want to look at him. Lose myself in his eyes. It’s all I ever want to do. But I force my focus to stay forward. I have to ace this review if I hope to keep my grade up in this class, and obsessing over the guy next to me is not going to help matters.
Still, I can’t help but glance his way for a brief moment after he turns his attention to the test in front of him. No matter how many times I tell myself not to look. No matter how many times I tell myself to let this go. I can’t stop myself from crawling further down the rabbit hole...
I guess I really am a glutton for punishment.
