James. Right. Of course. It’s not like they had anything else to talk about. Come to think of it, was there even a reason they should talk about James?
“Is there a reason we should talk about him? Other than your obvious un-unrequited love for him, which really isn’t any of my business…” Avery said, her tone snippish.
“Love?!” the poor girl colored right up, some of her freckles disappearing under cover of the intense full-body blush. “I...I didn’t say…”
Avery sighed, and shook her head. The anger that had been coursing through her earlier had mostly faded now. She must be getting old if these shitty high school dramatics were all it took to make her so tired that she just wanted to crawl into bed for a nap. “It takes one to know one, kid.”
It was kind of sad that she’d essentially ad
