DEE WAS LESS OF A NUTCASE that night. Lucy finally got the mare to carry her head properly for most of the lesson.
And also for most of the lesson...she found herself looking for Elise on that second level. But every time she looked up, she was disappointed—actually disappointed—to find that the senior was nowhere to be seen.
She's probably just busy, Lucy thought. And why do you even care, anyway?
"I don't care," Lucy told herself, as she was untacking Dee in her stall after the lesson, "I don't care."
"What don't you care about?"
Lucy whipped her head around to find Owen standing there.
"Huh?" Lucy asked, although she had clearly heard Owen.
"I said what don't you care about?" Owen repeated.
It seemed innocent enough when he asked it.
But Lucy didn't know how to answer him. She
