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I walked byin front of the mountains, where our a in line, soht arm To my surprise, it was Heath

"Oh, hi," I said

"Hi"

I hung back fro them board first Then Heath cli a hand down to me

"Thanks," I said, uncertain of why he was suddenly showing me this attention

To my further surprise, he kept hold of h the aircraft We passed Arwen and Brock, sitting together now There were two seats free next to thes over thelared up at us

"These seats are reserved," Brock said "Move along, traitors"

I chuckled, while Heath rolled his eyes If they had really wanted to keep their relationship under wraps longer, they should have made themselves invisible in the woods so that Heath and I couldn’t pull off our prank

We keptThe seats were mostly filled up already, but as we neared the front, we spotted two empty ones in a row and sat down As the helicopter took off, I gazed out through theat our disappearing island I always felt a bit sick taking off, so I was glad that Heath remained quiet

About half an hour into the flight, however, he cleared his throat and said, "Do you ?"

My eyes widened as I turned to him "Of course you can," I said "About what?"

He looked uncomfortable as he scanned the seats around us There wasn’t much privacy here But ould he want to say to alley "Care to join ht have jumped to alley, which was currently empty, and moved to the far end of the roo What does he want to tell me?

His navy-blue eyes locked withto know you better recently" He hesitated, glancing furtively at the door "I’oing around"

I winced internally

"Back in The Woodlands, when Brockthat I should be straight with you"