Malorie’s face fell.
Of course she knew what that felt like.
“S-sorry,” William challenged himself to say.
Malorie shook her head and waved him off as if it didn’t matter, but it did to him.
“What was the lie then?”
William cleared his throat instead of pursuing the obvious misstep, then said, “Rolling my eyes. They didn’t get stuck, obviously, but they hurt so bad when I did it.”
“Shut up…” Malorie tried to sound playful, although she didn’t move much from where she huddled herself under the surface. “How can you hurt yourself doing an eye roll?” she asked incredulously.
“Oh, trust me,” William nodded. “There are ways.”
“Like?”
William suppressed the urge to roll his eyes as a demonstration, then added, “You’ll know when you achieve it. It feels like several tight ropes are s
