“I thought I was taking that one to the grave,” he admits with a grin. “But I couldn’t let you go on thinking I hated you. That’s so far from the truth.” “You sure could have fooled me. You could have fooled everyone. Why were you such a jerk to me?” His grin slips. “I told you. I was a kid, and that’s what dumb boys do when they like a girl. They pick on them.” “I’ll never understand that.” “Yeah, it’s stupid,” he says. “Then we both grew up, and giving each other hell was just a part of who we were. There was no going back.”
