Nathan
I leave my bestie’s mansion, conflicted. Will Amari be angry if I keep this from her? I am trying to protect her. That is my responsibility.
“You are troubled.”
I turn to find Isaac studying me. I did not even see him approaching.
“Are you okay?” he asks, and I tell him my dilemma.
“I don’t want your advice,” I say when he opens his mouth, and he laughs. I know exactly what he is going to say.
He shrugs and still speaks.
“Okay. Don’t tell her. It is for her own good. Who can be angry at that? She will love you and be so happy that you kept her in the dark in the name of trying to protect her,” he says with a straight face. He is using reverse psychology on me, and it is working. He knows Amari very well, even better than me. They have been best-friend since they were five-
