“Me, too,”I said, gesturing at Willow. She was listening to our conversation, her large ears pricked up and her tongue lolling out of one side of her mouth. Dex nodded. “Look, I . . . well. I think I owe you an apology,”he said awkwardly. “You know. For the way I acted at your MATh competition.” I just managed to keep my mouth from dropping open in shock. He was apologizing to me? “I shouldn’t have stormed off like that. It really isn’t any of my business who you go out with. I mean, it’s not li...ke we were . . .”He stopped suddenly without finishing the thought. But I knew what he had been about to say. It’s not like we were a couple. I looked down, staring fixedly at my bare feet. I didn’t want to see how his hair glowed in the sun, or the humorous glint in his pale blue eyes, or the way his lips twitched up in an easy smile as if the whole world was one big joke that he was in on. No, I didn’t want to see any of that . . . not if he was going to stand there and confirm what I already knew: He wasn’t romantically interested in me.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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