Micah caught Harlow alone two days later, walking back from the rink after practice, and from what she told me after, he didn't come at it like an interrogation. He came at it softly. Which was somehow worse.
"Can I ask you something?" he'd said, according to Harlow. "And you don't have to answer if it's not your thing to answer."
"Okay."
"Is Rhys seeing someone?"
She said her stomach dropped straight through her shoes.
"Why would you ask me that?"
"Because you'd know. You and Josie live together. You two are basically the same person some days." He wasn't pushing, she said, just watching her carefully, the way he did when he actually cared about the answer instead of just wanting gossip. "He's different lately. Happier, but weird about it. Won't tell me anything, which isn't like hi
