"Candice, wait!" Brad's voice hits me like a knife.
Shit.
Seconds later, he catches up to me, gently gripping the top of my arm. I turn around to find him looking at me like I'm insane.
"What did I say?" he asks, already apologizing with his eyes.
I shrug, trying like hell to look calm. This is too much. He is too much, so I blurt the first thing I can think of. "Why are you so interested in me?"
He looks at me like he didn't hear me right, so I repeat the question.
"Why are you so..." I take a deep breath because he's staring at me in the middle of the cafeteria. "So interested in me?"
His eyebrows go up. "I-I just am." The look on his face tells me two things. He's being sincere, and without a doubt, I like him way more than I realized until this moment. But I'm not the girl fo
