Chapter 15

I dropped onto my bed and let my head fall back. Shaun’s ‘I guess so’ kept replaying over and over in my mind. It hurt to hear him say that, because I knew how my cousin thought and she’d think that was him saying okay to a semi-date.

My more rational side tried to assure me that Shaun didn’t mean it like that. I wasn’t in the mood to listen to my rational side at the moment. However, I wasn’t in the mood to go over and over everything Shaun said, either. Needing a distraction, I pulled out my English book to get started on homework.

I’d just finished the first half of the assignment when there was a knock on the window. When I looked up, Shaun waved at me. What was he doing there? I set aside my text book and opened the window. “What are you doing here?”

“Wanted to check up on you,” he said, crawling through the window into my room. “You seemed upset when you left.”

“Because I was,” I admitted and sat back down on my bed. “Alisha was flirting with you and you did nothing.”

“Of course