Chapter 26
“I told her you kissed me,” I said, teasing him, as I was throwing stuff in my schoolbag.
“What?” Billy yelped. “I-I didn’t kiss you Mahi, I was onl- I’d never kiss you! No, sorry, didn’t mean that. Of course I would, if you were to… You’re gorgeous. But not like that!”
I let him babble on for a while and then shushed him. “Relax, I didn’t tell her anything about that. Just the rest of the facts.”
I heard a chair squeak from weight, and a sigh. After a while, he said, “Mahi? Do you need me to come with you?”
I thought about it. “Ohi. No, I’ll be fine. I ran away from her the first couple of times, I’ll just do it again. I’m prepping my bag now, got my clothes, my sneakers, all I need. Don’t worry titan boy.”
“Hope your plan works. Tell me where you’ll be in case something
