Oh. Ohhhhh. So many thoughts crashed through my head at once. All of them competed in volume with my ringing heartbeat. He wanted to have dinner? With me? What would Travis say? Scratch that, what should I say?

The silence stretched, so I blurted out the first word I could think of to fill it: "Sure."

It was just dinner. Travis could say whatever he wanted to. Still, though, my heart broke a little at the thought of him finding out. Which was silly because it was just dinner. ...