Page 45 of You Said I Was Your Favorite

“I thought Vivian showed you yesterday.”

“I already forgot.” He goes and grabs a chair, pulling it right up next to me and sits, his shoulder brushing mine. “You don’t have a problem answering the phone?”

“No.” I shake my head, wondering what he might do if I crawled into his lap and settled in. “Is that shocking?”

“Yeah. You always seem so nervous.”

“I do?”

“Definitely. But maybe that’s because I make you nervous.” He turns his head toward me, his gaze locking on mine. “Is that it? Do I make you nervous, Daze?”

Yes. One thousand times yes. “Sometimes.” I shrug.

“Why?”

“I worry about what you might say.” Okay, that’s not a lie.

“Oh yeah.” He leans back in the chair, kicking his legs out in front of him. “That makes sense.”

This boy. I don’t know how to act around him. Or what to say. He definitely makes me nervous and jumpy and even a little nauseous. Lightheaded. Overwhelmed.

Overcome.

The phone rings and I automatically answer it. “Thank you for calling Lancaster Prep. How may I direct your call?”

I can feel Arch’s eyes on me as I listen to the older gentleman ask to speak with Headmaster Matthews. “I’m afraid he’s in a meeting right now. Would you care to leave a message and I can give it to him when he’s available?”

I take down the man’s name and number and hang up the phone. Tearing the message off the sheet, I rise up, leaning over the desk to leave it on top of Vivian’s.

Arch’s gaze drops to my skirt. I can feel it. Hot and curious. And when I glance over my shoulder, his gaze lifts, meeting mine, and I know for a fact he was staring at my butt. The back of my thighs.

My entire body feels as if it caught fire.

“You sound like a professional,” he murmurs.

“You make that sound like a bad thing.” I’m breathless over his compliment, which is ridiculous.

“It’s not. You have a phone voice.” I glance over at him, frowning. “You do. It completely changed when you answered that call.”

“I sounded like a dork, didn’t I?” This is embarrassing. A bad idea, having Arch sit right next to me. Critiquing me. I will never measure up to this boy’s standards. He is on a whole other level compared to me. An unreachable level.

“Not at all.” He’s shaking his head, catching his lower lip with his teeth. “Doesn’t this school have an automated phone system?”

I nod slowly, my gaze caught up in his. “If they hit zero, they get me.”

“If I hit zero, will I get you?” The words fall from his lips with no care and they make no sense. Not really. Though I get this feeling that he’s trying to see if he can…

Get me.

No. Absolutely not. I’m reading too much into this.

“I’m ungettable,” I tell him, my voice firm.

“You are?”

I nod, trying to calm my accelerated breaths.

“Is that why you keep to yourself, Daze? You’re not interested in human interaction of any kind?”

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