分节阅读_31

  i ued, the pent-up annoyang freely now, ”say
  that person also did a wide range s — from saving your
  life under impossible e day t you like a pariah
  the , and he never explained any of that, either, even after he
  promised. that, also, would be very n.”
  ”you've got a bit of a temper, don't you?”
  ”i don't like double standards.”
  we stared at each other, unsmiling.
  he glany shoulder, and theedly, he snickered.
  ”what?”
  ”your boyfriehink i'm beio you — he's
  debati to e break up ht.” he snickered again.
  ”i don't know who y about,” i said frostily. ”but i'm sure
  y, anyway.”
  ”i'm not. i told you, most people are easy to read.”
  ”except me, of course.”
  ”yes. except for you.” his mood shifted suddeurned
  brooding. ”i wohat is.”
  i had to look away from the iy of his stare. i trated on
  uhe lid of my lemoook a swig, stariable
  without seeing it.
  ”aren't you hungry?” he asked, distracted.
  ”no.” i didn't feel like mentioning that my stomach was already full — of
  butterflies. ”you?” i looked at the empty table in front of him.
  ”no, i'm not hungry.” i didn't uand his expression — it looked like
  he was enjoyie joke.
  ”e a favor?” i asked after a sed of hesitation.
  he was suddenly ends on what you want.”
  ”it's not much,” i assured him.
  he waited, guarded but curious.
  ”i just wondered… if you me beforehaime you
  dee food. just so i'm prepared.” i looked at
  the lemole as i sp the circle of the opening with my
  pinkie finger.
  ”that sounds fair.” he ressing his lips together to keep from
  laughing when i looked up.
  ”thanks.”
  ”then i have ourn?” he demanded.
  ”one.”
  ”tell me oheory.”
  whoops. ”not that one.”
  ”you didn't qualify, you just promised one answer,” he reminded me.
  ”and you've broken promises yourself,” i reminded him back.
  ”just oheory — i won't laugh.”
  ”yes, you will.” i ositive about that.
  he looked down, and the me through his long black lashes,
  his ocher eyes sg.
  ”please?” he breathed, leaning toward me.
  i blinked, my mind going blank. holy crow, how did he do that?
  ”er, what?” i asked, dazed.
  ”please tell me just oheory.” his eyes still smoldered at me.
  ”um, well, bitten by a radioactive spider?” notist, too? or
  was i just a hopeless pushover?
  ”that's ive,” he scoffed.
  ”i'm sorry, that's all i've got,” i said, miffed.
  ”you're not eveeased.
  ”no spiders?”
  ”nope.”
  ”and no radioactivity?”
  ”none.”
  ”dang,” i sighed.
  ”krypto bother me, either,” he chuckled.
  ”you're not supposed to laugh, remember?”
  he struggled to pose his face.
  ”i'll figure it out eventually,” i warned him.
  ”i wish you wouldn't try.” he was serious again.
  ”because… ?”
  ”what if i'm not a superhero? what if i'm the bad guy?” he smiled
  playfully, but his eyes were imperable.
  ”oh,” i said, as several things he'd hinted fell suddenly into place. ”i
  see.”
  ”do you?” his face tly severe, as if he were afraid that he'd
  atally said too much.
  ”yerous?” i guessed, my pulse quig as i intuitively
  realized the truth of my own words. he was dangerous. h