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“You were digitally murdering me.”
I pouted. “Like I said, I was quite happy here.”
Max shook his head and sighed. “I don’t know why I’m still here.”
“I don’t know why you came here,” I admitted.
“I’m wondering that myself,” he shot back. “Although apparently it was to apologise, save you from falling, watch a pixelated version of me freeze to death in a pool, and now engage in meaningless tit for tat with you.”
I leant back on the sofa and smiled. “Sounds like a good day to me.”
“You and I have vastly different ideas of what makes a good day.”
“Yet, here you are. Still sitting here. Still talking to me.” I crossed one ankle over the other, hoping I didn’t look too smug. “I guess I’m not that bad after all.”
Max stared at me for a moment too long.
My heart did a weird little skippy-skip thing. “What?”
“Nothing.” He pushed off the sofa and headed for the door.
“No, what?” I got up and followed after him, only hobbling a little bit. “You can’t just look at me like that and walk off.”
“Look at you like what?”
“Like you…” My words stopped working, and I swallowed when he turned around.
“Like I what?” he asked, his voice low.
I jerked one shoulder in a tiny shrug. “Nothing.”
“No, what?”
“No. If you can ‘nothing’ me, then I can ‘nothing’ you right back.”
“Jesus, you’re so stubborn.” He ran his hand through his shiny black hair.
Was it as soft as it looked?
Hmm.
Why did I care?
“You started it,” I shot back, tossing those thoughts out of my brain. “If I’m stubborn, then so are you.”
“It’s not a competition, Ellie.”
“I’m just saying.”
“You never stop talking, do you?”
“Well, you’re the one talking bloody back, aren’t you?”
He turned around and looked at me. Something sparked in his eyes, and his lips twitched on one side. “I’m going to leave before you drive me flipping mental.”
“Again with the talking back.” I folded my arms and glared at him. “This isn’t an airport, Max. There’s no need to announce your departure. You can just go.”
“Oh, be quiet.”
