I chew on my cheek but say nothing.
Ashley sees right through it. “You’re dying to know what he said,” she laughs. “I can tell!”
“It doesn’t matter what he said. Nothing will change the fact that—”
“He bitched about you the entire way home,” Ashley drawls.
“He complained about me?” It figures. I’m not sure why I expected anything different.
“Nonstop,” she says. “But in a flirty kind of way. Boys are always mean to girls they like.”
Ashley gives me a look. “All love is a schoolyard, Pipes. He even complained that you’re always sacrificing yourself to save me. Isn’t that ridiculous?”
I bite my cheek even harder. Telling Ashley the truth wouldn’t do any good right now. Especially since I can’t tell if her boundless energy is because she’s high or because of adrenaline.
“He said the on
