When practice is over as I walk out of the locker room after I gel my golden brown hair I see Riley and Austin making outside. I look down and walk to my dad’s car but Riley catches up with me first. “ Connor stop 당신 can’t do that 당신 can’t mope when 당신 see me and Austin.” “ Well 당신 can’t freak out when 당신 see me and another girl.” “ I don’t.” “ Yea 당신 do 당신 give me the cold shoulder the 분 당신 see me with any girl but you.” “ So I do the same thing for Damian.” “ Yea but 당신 think of him as a friend 또는 brother but what do 당신 think about me?” “ A friend.” “ A friend, a brother, a crush, 또는 a boyfriend.” “ Jezz can’t it go back to the way it used to be when 당신 only thought of me as a friend.” “ That time never existed I hid my 사랑 I feel ashamed that I didn’t tell you.” My 심장 probably pouring out of my eyes have to be tough not girly. “ Its 심장 felt but Austin is too.” “ Stop comparing me to Austin want me 또는 not I still 사랑 you.” “ How do I know if I take 당신 that 당신 just won’t go screw some other girl.” “ Because I wouldn’t put this much work into someone I didn’t really want.” “ Yea 당신 would you’re a guy 당신 like the chase.” I laugh at that and then caress her cheek. Austin is glaring at me and I take my hand away and say “ I have to go talk to me tonight 또는 tomorrow.” “ Ok Connor.” I rush off into my dad’s car. Kevin is lounging back on the 좌석 the whole way home. The night goes 의해 slow because I stare at Riley’s house across the 거리 for a long time. I lie in 침대 and fall asleep till I hear a whisper “ Connor wake up.” I look around and Riley’s sitting on the window siel. “Riley what are 당신 doing here?” “ I couldn’t fall asleep.” “ Fine.” I scoot over and she lies on the 침대 and I look over at her and she looks at me and says “ Austin tried to make me have sex with him.” “ What’d 당신 do?” “ I didn’t I broke up with him.” “ Good for you.” “ Good for 당신 too right.” “Not if your unhappy.” “ I thought I would be but I actually am happy that I am free of him.” “ Good for you.” “ Why are 당신 like that?” “ Like what?” “Like I don’t care and whatever are 당신 what 당신 said 당신 weren’t in for are 당신 in for the chase?” “No I just know that I’m not the only one in line for the Moonfield train.” “ Who isn’t?” “ No one except for Darren and the girls.” “ Yea Darren is my brother from another mother.” I chuckle but keep it down so my dad and step mom won’t hear. “ Why me” she asks? I stare at her amazed “ Riley your beautiful, smart, and funny basicly 당신 are the whole package.” “ Whatever all those boys made fun of me from the 4th grade till 7th and I come back for 8th grade and all of a sudden there’s a ton of boys around me.” “ It’s a sick world.” She laughs and lays her head on my shoulder and says “ How much do 당신 like me.” “ I don’t like 당신 any more.” “ What?” “ I don’t like 당신 any 더 많이 I 사랑 you.” She the lifts her head and lets her lips touch mine and do a dance that seems just right. I hold her against me till she pulls away gasps and runs out the window siel. Damn the girl can’t decide.