Halle’s eyes were huge as she rushed into the locker room after me. “You lucky b***h,” she whispered, smiling widely. “Did Steven Hempfield just kiss you?” I shushed her and she rolled her eyes, glancing over toward the other girls who were all whispering amongst themselves. “Everybody saw it. It’s not like he was slick about it.”
“We’re friends.” Even that word tasted bitter when talking about Steven. I’d hardly consider him a “friend” at all. If anything, he was becoming a problem.
“Ooh, right, ‘friends’,” she said, wagging her brows as she pulled her clothes out of her bag.
Stripping down, I changed, noticing that Halle had her back to me, doing the same thing. Nothing had suggested those rumors about her were true at all. Then again, I was certain there would b
