SCOTT

It should not bother me, but it does.

'So who is this guy?' I finally ask after what seems like decades of driving in silence while avoiding her eyes.

I can feel her gaze on me, and I can feel her lips tilting up in a smile, and then I hear her laugh.

It made me feel stupid, like I was foolishly chasing after something I could never have, but it did not stop my heart from aching to know everything about her, every detail.

Yes, my heart.

That organ has been doing a lot of fluttering ...