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“So you don’t need me?” Halli asked as soon as she returned. She’d gone off to bring back a few blankets. The night was very cold.
“I guess not,” I said, very excited by the prospect. That might have had something to do with the fact that I’d just had five minutes alone to make out with my intergalactic boyfriend. Who was leaving in the morning. Although I tried not to think too much about that.
Even with Halli back, Daniel and I could sit side by side huddling for warmth and holding hands beneath the blanket. It sort of cracked me up—how back in the observation room at the lab, no one had a clue what was going on. They were watching an empty room, or at best, a colored blob of me on the monitor. No one would guess that what I was really doing was sitting here holding hands with a ho
