You Don't Know..What you Don't Know

Chapter Three: Summer

Day three in the city came and went without a single exciting thing happening.

Not one.

Partly because Steve spent the entire day attached to my side.

Don't get me wrong—I loved Steve.

He was one of my favorite people on the planet.

But after approximately eight straight hours together, I found myself wishing he'd suddenly remember some important cousin business that required him to disappear for a little while.

Just a little while.

We walked with the rec center group all the way to Canton for the baseball game.

The Centers were always competing against one another during the summer, and half the neighborhood seemed to show up whenever a game was scheduled.

The boys played.

The adults sat in lawn chairs offering commentary nobody asked for.

The day should have been fun.

Instead, I found myself distracted.

None of the boys paid much attention to me.

Not Kevin.

Not his friends.

Not anyone.

Which was funny because two days ago I would've considered that a blessing.

Now I found myself oddly disappointed.

Athena noticed immediately.

Interesting.

"It is not interesting."

Sure.

I crossed my arms and watched the game.

The truth was, I missed flirting with Kevin.

Not because I actually liked Kevin.

I didn't.

At least not like that.

But flirting had been fun.

New.

Exciting.

For the first time in my life, I felt like people were noticing me.

Really noticing me.

Now everyone seemed focused on baseball.

Or soccer.

Or arguing about baseball and soccer.

I sighed.

Athena knew exactly where my thoughts were heading.

You miss him.

"No."

You do.

"Nope."

Green eyes.

I groaned.

There it was.

The real problem.

Torri.

The human headache.

The walking bad decision.

The boy who somehow managed to take up far more space in my brain than he had any right to.

He was completely missing today.

No random appearances.

No annoying comments.

No smirks.