"WHAT ARE YOU doing?" Pearl asks, putting distance between the two of them. Lana looks away and turns around, not uttering one single word. The silence adds up to the tension and a jittery feeling twists her guts. The night isn't going the way she expected it to. "Lana, what was that?"
She turns around, now facing her, and yells, "I like you, okay?! I had a crush on you when we were kids and after I left for Japan, I thought I had gotten over you but now . . . it's all coming back to me."
Her brown eyes are full of exasperation and something since to have come loose inside her. Pearl can't help but feel a bit of pity. "But I thought you liked Heath. Ever since you came back, you seem to flirt with him and you're always asking about him. I don't understand, Lana."
"Of course, you don't u
