Georgia didn’t smile back. She opened her door but didn’t get out.
Instead, she turned to me and looked me straight in the eyes. “Wait.”
That’s when she told me her father hadn’t chosen me by accident.
And she showed me his strange message.
Georgia didn’t smile back.
***
I stared at my date’s phone. “Don’t make things too easy for him?”
Georgia nodded. “My dad wants me to make tonight difficult.”
“Why?”
“To see how you react.”
I blinked. “What?”
I stared at my date’s phone.
“He suggested I complain about everything. Make unreasonable requests. See whether you lose your patience.”
I looked toward the school. “So I’m wearing borrowed shoes and driving a car that sounds like a shopping cart because your father wants to test my patience?”
Georgia suddenly burst out laughing. “Pretty much.”
“He suggested I complain about everything.”
