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I looked away just to escape his eyes, and David started chatting with Beth like I wasn’t even in the room. But then when she grabbed her snack and went upstairs to practice he returned his attention to me.
“Why did you ask me that?” he said.
“Ask you what?” Although of course I knew.
He wasn’t playing my game. He just kept looking at me with a calm expression, waiting for me to break.
“I don’t know,” I said. “Just for fun.”
“You think it’s fun to pry into people’s lives when you have absolutely no business there?”
“No.” Jeez. Lighten up. I cracked a smile, mainly because he was making me so nervous.
“What if I had asked you those same questions?” he demanded. “Wouldn’t you have been offended?”
“Yes.”
“All right then.” He started gathering up his books.
“Wait—so you’re mad at
