*
“You must be joking.”
“I’m not.”
“Bella, please tell me you’re joking, because that is the only acceptable statement you can make right now.”
Bella merely shrugged. She was sitting on her bed, while Ava sat on the edge and stared at her like she had sprouted a second head on her shoulders.
“You mean to tell me that you don’t think Christian is hot at all?” she asked.
“I’m not saying he’s not attractive,” Bella said. “I’m saying that it doesn’t have any effect on me whatsoever.”
“Because you only have eyes for Aiden, am I right?”
Bella glared at her, but Ava’s laughter caused her to laugh as well. She supposed it was true, since after Aiden left her room, she went back downstairs and watched Christian for a few minutes from afar, trying to see if he was looking at her in some ty
