It’s cereal, who cares?
“You’re not?” Randy asks at the same time, Minnie retorts, “You are.”
I drop my head and begin rubbing my forehead because this is dumb. “It’s cereal. Unless Randy sits in SpongeBob pajama pants and watches the damn showwhilehe’s eating Fruity Pebbles, I might need to evaluate it.”
“What about X-Men?”
I glance up at Randy, who is completely serious, by the way, and can’t help the bubble of laughter that spills from my lips.
This is one of the stupidest conversations I’ve had and, honestly, the most enlightening.
It’s exactly as I thought.
I can’t date Micah openly and publicly. And, even then, Principal Simpson might look at it weirdly since he’ll still be a parent to a student here.
This might be a pickle.
However, I think I may be willing to risk it when Heath is no longer in my classroom just to experience life underneath Luca Micah Wolfe.
Speaking of…
I pluck my cell phone from the table when Minnie prompts, “See?” She points her fork at poor Randy. “You need to grow up.”
“Iamgrown up,” he retorts. “Everyone has their quirks.”
“Like?”
“Because your name is Minnie, you’re obsessed with Minnie Mouse.”
I hear her scoff as I pull up my text message thread with Micah. “I amnot.”
“Is that why you have a room full of memorabilia and?—”
“Stop,” Minnie cuts in through Claire’s sentence. “That’s mymother. Not me.”
“Sure,” Randy drawls. “You’re a weird nerd like the rest of us.”
SIENNA: Romance in this town is hard. I’m listening to my colleagues discuss the latest affairs in town.
SIENNA: I miss you.
MICAH: I miss you, too, sweetheart.
He doesn’t add more to that sentence, but at the moment, I don’t need him to.
I believe him when he says he’s in this with me.
That he’s going to wait and make it hard.
He doesn’t have to try hard.
Every moment and second, I don’t see him makes me fall deeper into a word I dare not admit to anyone or anything.
Not yet.
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