6/28/2023 0 Comments Made you up zappia![]() He turned down my street and pulled into my driveway. I shouldn’t say things like that to him, but they hung neatly in the air and cleared out the tension. “No, no, don’t do that! The smile was better.” The words felt wrong coming out of my mouth. A real, teeth-showing, nose-scrunching, eyes-crinkling smile. My first idea was to drive up and down in front of you a few times to prove I had a car and you didn’t.” His tone was light and he was smiling. “Since when have you been good? Are you feeling guilty or something?” “What do you mean?” Honest confusion crossed his face. ![]() “But I’d like to know why you’re offering.” “No, not against it.” I realized with a strange sort of happy dread that we were falling back into the easy conversation we’d had at the bonfire. The line from the notebook felt like a dead weight in my stomach. Unless you’re that against having anything to do with me. “And you seem to have forgotten that I have a truck,” said Miles. “You seem to have forgotten that someone cut my bike in half.” I faced forward, trying to look inconspicuous. Groaning, I stuffed the notebook back under his chemistry book. ![]()
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