A guy came closer to me. His shoulder bumped my chest, but he didn’t even notice.
“Are you June?”
“Yeah.” I looked at him quizzically.
“We go to school together.”
“Oh, okay. Gym class?” I asked, hoping to guess the class I thought I’d already seen him in.
“No, lit.”
“Sorry, I’m terrible when it comes to remembering faces,” I admitted.
“Well, I’m great at it, but you’re unrecognizable tonight.”
“What?”
But my words stopped flowing when the guy turned to the dance floor. “Uh. I better—”
“What?”
“I better leave you alone.”
“Sorry, what do you mean? Hold on.” I grabbed his arm, not because I was interested but because I was curious about why he so quickly changed his mind.
“You’re with them, aren’t you?”
“With whom?”
“They’re really protective of their property.”
And when I looked up and saw Will’s and James’s eyes fixed on me, a chill went down my spine.
“You should update your thinking. It’s not 1950.”
The guy stared at me, bewildered.
“Look at me. I’m not an object. I’m a human being. And I’m definitely not their property.”
But my words didn’t convince him.
William came closer to us and jerked his head. The guy turned around and left. I didn’t like that at all. I should’ve been the one to get rid of him. I opened my mouth, but instead of saying what I was thinking, I said something completely different.
“You don’t seem like you’re scary,” I taunted. I felt like laughing. I felt weird. I didn’t feel like myself.
“Maybe they know I’m completely crazy.”
The dumb sentence made my lips curl.
“Then again, how could I blame them?” William’s eyes traveled from my hips to my cleavage and finally reached my eyes. “You look gorgeous.”
Damn it, Will, why do you have to be like this?
James was still nearby with that girl, but I felt the warmth of his eyes on me.
Why do both of you have to be like this?
“June, I’m sorry about yesterday. I didn’t mean to humiliate you in front of everyone, nor did I mean to hide Ari from you, but I’ve already told you too much about myself.”
