“What was that?” Isobel arched one of eyebrows at her.
“Just me telling Ricardo to go away.”
“Like opposite corners of the plane isn’t far enough?”
Michelle shook her head. It was nowhere near far enough.
“What do you have against my brother?”
Michelle glanced across the aisle at Hannah and Jesse, but they were both asleep—with their ankles overlapping for crying out loud. She turned back to Isobel but didn’t have a good answer, so she offered a bad one, “Everything!”
Isobel laughed right in her face.
“And no, I don’t need you to tell me that my feelings are mixed up worse than a ladybug hatch.”
“I try never to listen in on my friends feelings. It is too intrusive.”
“Well, that’s something.”
“However, if you’d like I could—”
“No!”
Again that silver-screen laugh that was so huma
