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Ugh How do I put this…

“So you’re probably not going to like this”

“What? Lilly, just say it”

I squir on h the kitchen after using the bathroom, your mom kind of cornered me”

“Okay?”

“And asked point-blank if we’re dating I mean…I didn’t knohat to say She looked so…” My hands do that thing where you wave them around here and there “Hopeful And I didn’t want to ruin her evening”

“Ruin her evening?” Rome turns his body to look atbetween us? You obviously told her we’re just friends”

“Not exactly?”

He glances over

Glances at the road

Glances back over at ?”

“No?” Did I? Um “Not exactly—but I also didn’t deny it” He looks appalled Absolutely appalled “What!? I was trying to make her happy! It’s harmless!”

Shit

He does not look happy

At all

I mean, what’s he so mad about? It’s not like I committed a crime! All I did was make his mother happy She looked so…excited

And I’ve never had a guy’s ht up in the moment

“Is it so bad that they think you’re seeing me? Are you that embarrassed about it?” My stomach drops as I crossa Nobel Peace Prize for being so, and for one semester only

“You think I’d be e you?”

I look out theat the little farhway now, not too far fro in the middle of nowhere Not much to see I turn back toward Roman