The great Dastan Vega admitted that he liked me but his popularity and lifestyle of painting the perfect need-to-be-with-Mickie complex was the only reason why he couldn’t show me that he like me. He apparently liked me so much that he couldn’t stand the fact that Hayden broke the whole I-call-dibs rule to be with me. “That’s it,” he concluded in a breath. I blinked at him. His reputation. He thinks that everything can be explained by his…reputation. Really? Was that it? And the only reason he and Hayden were fighting was because of me? That was his side of the story and part of me thought he was missing a really big piece revolving around the whole Proliator thing, not some childish feud with his best friend over a girl. I didn’t even ask him why I tingled at every touch or why his eyes

