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relationship that he didn’t know he wanted with my best friend?
    Adam might actually consider that a little strange.
    “Are you sure you’re okay? You look worried.” Which made Adam look worried. And Adam worried was even cuter than Adam not worried.
    I leaned my head on his shoulder for a brief second since he was actually pulling out of the parking lot and I didn’t want to cause an accident. But it was nice to lean on him. He was tall, with black hair, perfect teeth, a rock-solid body (all those sports were boring to watch, but they did lovely things to his build), and a very sweet smile. Adam made me feel safe, protected, and not at all self-conscious, which was funny because for months I had secretly liked him, and had spent every day sitting next to him in science class sweating through my hoodies in uncomfortable silence hoping he’d notice me.
    Now that he had noticed me and asked me to Homecoming, even though we’d only been together a few weeks, it was easy to be with Adam. He didn’t make stupid guy jokes, he didn’t try to maul me every chance he got, and he didn’t forget to call me back. He was thoughtful, fun to talk to, and probably not as smart as me (had to admit that helped my feelings of security), but not dumb to the point where I wanted to knock on his skull.
    Nothing about Adam annoyed me, really, which was more than could be said for some people.
    Like people whose names started with L and ended with i . And had an ev in the middle.
    “I’m fine. Just tired. They started work on the kitchen this morning and my mom was bitter that it screwed up her morning coffee routine. She made me get up and help with Zoe’s Girl Scout thing.” Speaking of my mother, I pulled my phone out and texted Levi to call me. He really needed to ask my mom about this party.
    “Who are you texting?” Adam asked, glancing over at me, his baseball hat shadowing his eyes. “Isabella?”
    “No. Levi. Isabella wants to have a Halloween party at my house. Tomorrow. And I told her Levi was going to have to ask my parents because they will never let me do it. They’ll let him do it, though, which is seriously irritating.”
    “When is he moving back in with his parents?” Adam asked, oh-so-casual.
    “I don’t know. They’re getting divorced and they hate each other, and they’re both refusing to move out of the house, so they’re like throwing knives at each other and crap, so they don’t want him there right now.” That was the story Levi had told everyone, anyway, even though as far as I could tell, he had no parents. Yet he had even managed to produce a woman on the phone to discuss the whole fake sordid situation with my mom so she would agree to let him live with us.
    “That sucks.”
    I wasn’t sure what Adam meant sucked exactly, but I thought he meant pretty much everything about it, including that Levi, who was not related to me, lived in my house, three feet down the hallway.
    Or maybe that was just my guilt laying suspicion at Adam’s feet.
    My stomach suddenly hurt. “Totally,” I agreed, massaging my gut.
    Could guilt actually eat through stomach lining in half a day?
    “I think Levi likes you,” Adam added, straight out of nowhere.
    Yikes. I played dumb. “As a friend, yeah, we get along. We kind of have to, living in the same house. And you know, our moms are good friends and everything.”
    “No, I mean he likes you likes you. Like he wants you to play secretary to his boss.”
    It was a good thing I wasn’t drinking anything because I would have spewed it all over Adam’s windshield.
    “ What ?” I squeaked, majorly, seriously, catastrophically grossed out by that phrasing Adam had so casually thrown out there. “What are you talking about? He so doesn’t!”
    “He totally does.”
    “I . . . I . . .” What was I trying to say? I had lost command of the English language in my horror. “Nuh-uh.”
    That was really putting some conviction behind it. “He’s with Amber