Chapter 41

The entire day, Melissa and Callie kept asking if I was okay, despite the smile that I had managed to paste on. I knew that they weren’t buying my answer, but I kept trying to sell it. It’s what I wanted to believe. I was fine. Kevin came to sit with us today at lunch, which was both a good and bad thing. Good, because he was the only one who really knew what was going on and it felt relieving to have him there and bad, because his presence scared off Micah. Melissa and Callie were giving Kevin hell for allowing Ashton to even breathe near me and he was trying to crack some jokes to make them feel better. “You two are acting suspicious,” Melissa said, narrowing her eyes at us. Kevin and I stared wide eyed at her and then blinked in unison. This peaked Callie’s interest. “Are you sure you two aren’t dating?” she asked. “No, no, that’s not it,” Melissa decided, but she couldn’t put her finger on it. “Kevin was spaced out th