Wednesday
"Hey, Penny," Tyler said. He was all smiles.
I took a deep breath and smiled back at him. It felt so good to smile. We walked into the restaurant together and the hostess showed us to a booth. I sat down across from Tyler. He was looking at me curiously.
"Are you okay, Penny?"
"What? Yeah, I'm fine." I looked down at the table and tucked a loose strand of hair behind my ear. I was suddenly nervous to be around him. "So have you figured out what you're going to talk about in your next speech?"
"You know what, I think I have. But you'll have to wait and hear about it in class."
I laughed. "Why? Is it something that's going to embarrass me again?"
"You're so conceited. My speech has nothing to do with you. Geez, I do that one time and set a precedent." He laughed. "At the sam
