Chapter 14: Crazy Contagious

"You always this antisocial, Minnie?"

His voice cut through the music in my earphones. I turned the volume up.

"Go away," I said when Luke's body appeared next to mine, "Please."

Almost forgot my manners.

"I won't." He clearly forgot his.

I refused to look at him. I didn't know why he left the others to join me, but he shouldn't have. I remembered what he said to Tamara when she complained about me: We have better things to talk about.

So I said to him now, "I thought you had better things to do."

"I do." He agreed and sat down beside me, "But I want to be here."

His words replayed in my head. Is he high?

"I don't know why," he admitted, thinking the same thing, "but I do."