I was still smiling about what Brooke had just said - that Blake had a ‘surprisingly sensitive side’ by the time we got home. She seemed like she might be warming up to Blake and now he had apologized to me I wasn’t mad at him anymore. He was clearly a complex guy and completely different from anyone I had ever met before. But perhaps a complex guy is the kind of guy I needed. “You do know I was serious about your phone, don’t you?” Brooke asked as soon as we got through the door. It burst my bubble - I couldn’t daydream about Blake calling me late at night to whisper sweet words to me if I had to surrender my phone to Brooke. “Seriously?” “Yup. I’m not stupid.” “What do you mean?” “You can drop the act, Victoria. There is absolutely no way you both decided to take a trip to the art

