eleven
york
We hung out with my friends for the rest of the masquerade ball. Peyton remained quiet around them. Not that I’d expected her to turn into some social butterfly that suddenly became the center of attention. But she did seem to pay more attention to them than she usually did, which surprised me.
Typically, when she was forced to be in the presence of my crew, she ignored all of us, opting to play on her phone, read, doodle on a notepad, or do pretty much anything else to act as if they weren’t there.
But tonight, she smiled at their jokes, looked interested when we encouraged Harvey to ask Lisa Lemmel to dance, and she even clapped and cheered along with the rest of us when Lisa actually said yes and followed Harvey onto the dance floor.
Feeling the need to move along with
