Amy: I’m still pissed.
He called me right away.
“I figured you might be,” he said instead of hello.
“Knox, you can’t just do that.”
“What, kiss you in your house?”
“You know what I mean.Gregory’s a colleague.It was impolite.”
“Is that the only reason you’re pissed?”His voice had changed slightly.
I brought my knees closer to my chest and rested my forearm on top of them.“Yes.”
“I don’t think Harry Potter minded much.”
I frowned until I realized what he meant.With his round glasses and black hair, Gregory might bear an uncanny resemblance to the character.
“I think he was just embarrassed.As any guy would be with the display you made.”
“He likes you, Amy.”
“No, he doesn’t.”He’d asked me to do things, but always for school, like tonight.
“Yeah, he does.I could see it from the way he looked at me before and after I kissed you.”After a brief pause, he added, “And the way he looked at you.”
“You’re ridiculous.He’s just weird, that’s all.I thought he liked me, too, in the beginning when he first started at the school.But he never asked me out on a date.”At one time, I thought maybe wewouldgo out eventually, but as I got to know Gregory, I quickly realized we weren’t a match.
“That’s because he doesn’t have balls.”
“Knox, that’s so rude.”
I’d never known this side of Knox.It was infuriating.He’d always seemed so laid-back.But somehow, Gregory’s presence here seemed to annoy him.
“So what if he does like me?”I asked, bristling.
Silence.
“Knox?”I said, wondering if the call disconnected.
“I’m here,” he replied.“I don’t like the thought of another guy near you.”
His words felt like an electric shock.I drew my knees in even closer.
“It’s not like that,” I whispered, but I wasn’t pissed any longer.My anger just melted away.
Knox Sterling wasjealous.
“I don’t like the fact that he’s near you at school either.”
I laughed.“Right.And what are you going to do about that?”
“Get him fired.”
“Knox, you can’t do that!”
“The truth is, I can.And I’m exerting a lot of self-restraint not to do it because I know how insane it sounds.”
