Page 59 of Fostering Chemistry
I waited a beat longer, but he didn’t say it back. I reached for the doorknob.
“Maybe next time you can try two notes.”
I turned back, pleased that there was going to be a next time.
And then the words tumbled out of me before I could consider the wisdom of them. “Are you going to the movie night?”
He put a stack of sheet music on the piano stand. Finally, he looked up as if surprised I was still here. “I don’t do things like that. Aaron and Diego stopped asking me a long time ago.”
“It’s not at the house. It’s for class.”
Cody frowned, as if he wasn’t sure I was being serious. “Chemistry class has movie nights?”
“Yes, well, the science club does. It’s Thursday night and we get extra credit if we go.” I stared at him. “Have you ever even heard one word Professor Beringer’s said?”
“One time I got there early and think he said ‘hi’ to me.”
I was torn between rolling my eyes and laughing. “Okay, so you’ve heard exactly one word.”
“What’s the movie?”
“Guess. And it’s not actually a movie, it’s a show. About chemistry.”
He thought for a moment. “Breaking Bad.”
“Yes. We’re watching the pilot episode and then we have to write up a critique of the chem lab scenes.”
“And you’re going?”
“Yes.”
“And you want me to go too?”
“Yes.” Wasn’t that part obvious? “Will you?”
His head tilted to the side as he studied me.
“What?”
“You look like you want me to say ‘sure’ like before.”
“Because I do.” I sighed dramatically. “Free will is overrated.”
“All right,” he said at long last.
“You’ll go with me?”
He gave me a smile that was small but lovely enough to make my heart skip a beat.
“Sure.”
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MIA
“How doyou have this many dresses?” I asked, trying to keep my jaw from dropping.
We were in the home that Tori shared with Jayden, Lucas, and Kyle. I'd only been here once before and never down in the basement. From what I'd heard, it used to be a cluttered mess, but now it had been loosely divided into a bedroom, a game room, a study room, and an area with a huge rack for Tori's clothes.
