PiperI bit my lower lip, which was something I always did whenever I was dangerously close to losing my mind and saying something I would probably regret five minutes later, and after staring straight ahead for a few seconds while silently questioning every decision that had brought me to this exact moment, I finally released a long, defeated sigh."Fine," I muttered, tightening my grip around the handlebars. "Just today, though, so don't get comfortable, because if you're too heavy and this bicycle gives up on us halfway to school, I'm throwing you into a bush and pretending I don't know you."With that warning, I pushed my foot against the pedal and started riding, the bicycle wobbling slightly beneath our combined weight before I managed to steady it and find my rhythm again. Ryan was definitely heavier than the things I normally carried, but it wasn't impossible to ride with him behind me, especially since I'd used this same bicycle countless times to take my mother to the hospit
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