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"Are you serious?"

"Yes I don’t see any reason for ht now The re for the cos fro while I’one"

"I don’t know him at all You think we can trust hiht with hiirl, Gail"

"Yeah I hear ya She was … different"

I looked at hi nonchalant by his tone "Different? Different how?"

"Different in that she had a chip on her shoulder, like all the tis that made her seem really harsh Like she didn’t entirely bla what they do At least in theory"

"You think she’s a canner?" The very ideaPaci so close was adding up to severe heartburn My chest was on fire

"No I wouldn’t have let her travel with me if I had But I think she’d be easy for theroup"

"She wasn’t exactly rejected" I felt guilty about that, turning a person away in this world What kind of jerk am I? I pretty much either turned her into dinner or added to the canner arood reason" He put his hand onh decisions that are going to haunt you if you let them Koays said that he had to do as necessary and then walk away Regret is too heavy a burden for a chief"

"I’m no chief," I said, ale; I just wanted to live my life in peace It pissed me off that a peaceful life was just a dream - a fantasy that would probably never come true for me or any of the others here

"Sure you are You may not call yourself that, but that’s how everyone here views you Don’t look so down about it, though You’re a natural Leadership looks good on you"

I looked up to his brilliant sive the else I was struck by how it transforeous, but a smile"Do I have sohtly in the chest "I was just thinking … never rabbedwhat?"

I pulledthat I shouldn’t be out here talking to you like this"

He frowned "Really? No That’s not what you were going to say"

I changed tack, knowing he’d keep buggingif not persistent "I talked to Bodo last night and this ure into ere just talking about?"

"I told him about us … about e did"

"What’d you do that for?" Paci see to do!"

"All you’re going to do is hurt him with that story You should have just left it alone"

"No shit, Sherlock Thanks for the relationship tips Not that they help rinning now "Feisty, aren’t we? So what’d he say?"

"Notmy ass"

"And you’re sad about that?"

"Of course I’m sad I love hiet mad at me I’m just … you knohat you did with uy That’s bad in anyone’s book"

"No, that’s not what happened What happened is, you thought your boyfriend was dead, and all the evidence suggested he was dead, so you kissed a boy who threw hi to lose a relationship over"

"Says you"

"Says anyone with a brain Says anyone who really loves you"

"What’s that supposed to irl and you thought I was dead and kissed Bodo once or even a couple ti to destroy a relationship over, especially with a girl like you"

His explanation floored me Part of me wanted to stand up and yell, Yeah, Bodo! What he said! and another part of ht? Is Bodo’s love for me so shallow that it can’t weather even the smallest storotta get out of here," I said, walking away quickly, lost inwith you To Kahayatle"