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“Where’s your breakfast?” Stevie asks.
I glance at the empty table in front of me, then to Jess’s half-eaten bowl of fruit and Stevie’s egg sandwich.
“I guess I forgot to get it.”
They both eye me, and it’s coming out before I can stop it. “I ran into Bastian on the way over. Literally ran into him, and I think he put some kind of lusty spell on me because I was vibrating the whole way over in the very best way possible.”
I sigh, and my head falls into my hands.
“You didn’t mean to tell us that, did you?” Jess asks.
I nod. “I really didn’t.”
“Well, then we’ll just pretend like we didn’t hear it, K?”
My hands fall away from my face so I can stare at Stevie. “You would do that?”
“Sure. It doesn’t cost me anything to be nice about something you can’t control.”
Jess nods in agreement.
No one, not a single person on Celestus, ever offered me the same kindness when I said something I hadn’t meant to.
My throat and chest get tight, full to the brim with a sad sort of gratefulness.
“Thank you.”
“Oh shit, oh shit. Enzo is coming over here!” Stevie’s gaze tracks him behind me, and I resist the urge to turn around.
Even when I feel his presence looming behind me, I don’t move.
Enzo reaches over me and puts a plate in front of me. “I noticed you didn’t get anything to eat. This is my favorite, pretty bird.” he says and walks away.
Stevie and Jess both gawk at me, and I don’t know what to say.
“Well?” Jess finally says. “What is it?”
Stevie answers before I do. “Looks like an English muffin with peanut butter and bananas.”
“Do you think it’ll be good?” I ask.
Jess snorts out a laugh. “If you like peanut butter and bananas.”
I don’t see why I wouldn’t like those two together. I brave the first bite.
“Oh, it’s crunchy.”
“He used crunchy peanut butter?!” Stevie and Jess say in unison with matching degrees of incredulity.
“I guess so?”
“Total psycho,” Jess murmurs.
“What’s psychotic about crunchy peanut butter?”
“It—” Stevie starts and looks to Jess for help.
“I can’t explain it, babe. You just have to take our word for it.”
