His lips part. “How bad did you have it for that guy?” I roll my eyes away from him. “Honestly? I was a sheltered kid who went to an all girls’ school after ‘graduating’ from homeschool. I latched onto him like a baby bird.” I cut my gaze back. “And I’m only telling you this, because we’re now Word Up sisters.” Absently, eyes still clinging to the notebooks behind me, he says, “If we play pretend later, I’ll be Tobey. You be Wordgirl.” “Makes sense, since you can probably afford his robot army.” He puffs a soft breath, locking eyes, and says, “That’s not why it makes sense to me,” but he’s
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