Sammy kept up his excitement from the back, chattering about how much cooler that was than what the kid at school had apparently done, but out of the corner of my eye, I caught Aaron’s head tilted toward me. I still couldn’t see behind the damn glasses, but his mouth was twisted in a bemused sort of smile, a smile that only deepened when he realized I’d seen him.
“You are constantly surprising me,” he said.
“I was studying to be a marine biologist at the time, and I wanted to work with sharks. It was a huge honor to have the chance to go on the expedition at all, much less go down in the cage. But that’s pretty much the only cool thing I’ve ever done.”
“You’ve still got me beat. By a mile. How the hell did you get from swimming with sharks to working in a lab?”
“When I realized I wasn’
