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“Do you have class?”
“Not until later. I have time.”
“Cool,” I said.
“Are you sure?” Madison asked.
I glanced at her. She looked worried, shooting looks between me, Veronica, and then oddly Max. Clearly, I wasn’t doing a great job of hiding my feelings. I had to do better.
“I’m sure,” I said, noting the way Max stiffened. Madison frowned, and I felt a little bad. “Maybe you guys can come over later. We can order pizza.”
“I’m down,” Jamie said. “Text me the address.”
Ryan nodded, and so did the girls.
The door opened up, and a wheelchair came through, pushed by a nurse I didn’t recognize.
“All ready to go?” she said.
“I don’t need that,” I said, looking dubiously at the chair.
“Hospital policy,” she quipped, and I sighed.
Max started forward, but I shot him a look. “I got it.”
He stopped, eyes watching my every movement as Veronica held my crutches while I lowered into the wheelchair.
“I’ll go pull my car around to the entrance,” Veronica said, eyes bright as she handed off the crutches to Ryan and hurried out.
“That girl has it so bad,” Jamie whispered loudly when she was gone.
Rory shuffled, and when I looked at her, she lowered her gaze.
“Hey,” I called softly. She looked up, and I gestured for her to come closer. She did, and I leaned up. “Got something to say?”
Rory debated, then said, “Just don’t lead her on.”
Reaching up, I tugged on the end of her orange hair. “You think that’s what I’m doing?”
“I’m letting that slide because you’re sitting in a wheelchair,” Ryan informed me.
Rory rolled her eyes but then looked back at me. “I think it really hurts when you like someone and you hope they like you back.”
Ouch.Times two.
“Yeah,” I said, voice slightly hollow and cracked. “Yeah, I get that.” The last thing I wanted to do was make Veronica feel even one-tenth of the way I felt. It was the literal worst, and doing it to someone knowingly would make me worse than the literal worst.
“Thanks for the reminder,” I told her, tugging her hair again.
She giggled, and Ryan growled.
I glanced up at the nurse. “Think you can outrun him?”
She laughed. “Not sure I want to.”
Rory growled this time.
“Baby, we’ve talked about this jealousy problem,” Ryan admonished, completely smug.
