"You should go talk to him," Autumn told Clyde but he shook his head, refusing to get up from his seat.

　　"I refuse to go," he told her.

　　"What? Why?" she asked in frustration. She didn't want to be in the middle of their argument and she wanted the misunderstanding to be cleared up before she came clean with him and explained their fake break-up wasn't because of him but because of her.

　　"For starters, he hates me and you heard him state that clearly. ...