I had sounded so cool and grown-up when I said that I wanted to talk about ‘us’ with Blake, but I didn’t feel that way at all. I felt like my heart was going to explode and I was terrified that he was going to sneer at me and tell me that every moment that I had felt like there was something between us had been a cruel joke.
I was starting to think that calmly agreeing to meet at lunch to talk was the stupidest thing I could have done because now I was going to have to sit through the rest of geography and computer science wondering whether he was going to tell me he really liked me and knew that there was more to me than just this naive awkward girl that was sat next to him, or if he just wanted to find a creative new way to humiliate me in front of people like Delphine.
I didn’t even
