HAYLEY
I watch Theo step out of the shadowed ends of the room and walk towards my direction. When he meets me by the backyard door, he squints. “What are you doing here?”
For the first time in all my life, his presence this close stirs anger in my chest instead of comfort. “I could ask you the same thing, Theo.”
Theo gives me a bored look. “I'm captain of the team. This is our party.”
Ugh, of course. “Well then, good for you.” I’m about to walk out when he gets in my way and holds my gaze. With the lights above us flickering rapidly, it's almost impossible to tell what the expression on his face is.
“Why are you here?” Theo repeats. “It's late at night. And the Hayley I know never goes anywhere when it's late.”
I instantly resent the fact that he remembers anything at all about
