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Nova’s eyes elevate from her phone and settle ona smile "I still have my shoes on, too"

"But you always have your laces undone" She says it ers wrap securely around her phone and she hugs it against her chest

"Because ittoo deep into the fact that she noticed this minor detail about lances back at her phone, but doesn’t do anything but stare at the black screen

"It’s my feet," Tristan shahway "But if I’ to have to deal with it, because I’ to be comfortable"

"No onetheso he can smoke "You just did"

"Because no one else offered," he retorts, flipping on the high beahts up, every twist and turn, and every single tree There’s no one on the road, and it makes me apprehensive It’s not like I haven’t been in a car since the accident, but I’et into a vehicle I didn’t have tiht up before we drove off, and there’s no way I’ sober in a car painfully forces me to think about the accident and how in a blink of an eye we all could be gone

Nova lets out an exhausted sigh as she drops her phone on the seat between Delilah and herself "We should play a gagests, s at her in the rearview mirror

She frowns as she tips her head down, pieces of her hair curtaining her face "No, like I spy or soame ever," Dylan snaps froainst the headrest, and his hand rests on the sill so the cigarette ashes can blow freely outside He’s been pretty moody lately--well,down froher than pot

Delilah unfastens her seat belt, and it makes my stoe the back of Dylan’s neck "Relax, babe," she says, et so as he puffs on his cigarette "This is such bullshit"

Iat her makes my heart calm down a little, especially since she has her seat belt on It gives h I don’t have ?" I ask her, observing her enflamed cheek

She pouts out her bottooing to bruise, even after you put the ice on it"

"The ice was for the swelling" I resist the urge to put a hand on her cheek, because I need to stop touching her so o away eventually"

"I know," she replies, disheartened "But it hurts and I need a distraction That’s why I wanted to play the game Well, that and my dad and I used to play it all the time e’d take road trips" She sucks her lip between her teeth, looking sadder than so just died "Sorry, that probably makes me sound like a little kid, doesn’t it?"

"No, it makes you sound like someone who misses her dad" I stare out theat the lofty trees and fence lining the road, thinking aboutin a house packed with reen," I say I wait for Nova to say so, but when she doesn’t, I turn my head toward her "What? Now you don’t want to play?"

Her expression is unreadable "No, I just didn’t think anyone would actually play a gauess I’ eyes of yours…" As soon as it slips out, I want to retract it It’s not a friend thing to say It’s a flirty, I’ to say And I shouldn’t be flirting with her or thinking about fucking her Plus, Tristan’s in the car and the last thing I want to do is piss his considering

By the look on Nova’s face, I think she knows I’ what the hell is going to couesses breezily, letting me off the hook

I frown, disappointed by her answer "That’s seriously your guess?"

"What" She bats her eyelashes innocently at reen"

"Nova" I shaketo be severely displeased in her answer "Your lack of creativity is alar"

"Well, not all of us our artists," she retorts "But if you think you’re so creative, then let’s see how good you are" She thrulances around at the forest on each side of the road "I spy soreen" She smiles at me, amused by herself, which makes her at the moment completely and utterly the most wonderful person that’s ever existed, at least in my book

"Did you just copy eratedly presses her hand to her heart "No way How could I when I don’t even knohat the ansas?"

"Yeah… I guess…" I focus on her, pretending like I’hts, and it ive her an answer she’ll never expect "Your eyes"

She points a finger at h ertips to her tereen in thes I noticed about you"

She presses her lips together so forcefully the skin around theuilt consu I’ve ever said to her But like I knoay too well, you can’t just take stuff back The decisions we make from the moment we definitivelyto take the responsibility of being the driver for the night, which , but in my case, it drastically altered my life forever