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I not hear it?”
    She raised her eyebrows, getting some
of her spunk back. “Um, because you don’t listen to a word I say?”
    I just smiled at that. The chick
had absolutely no clue that I hung on every word she uttered.
    Zoey sighed, apparently thinking
she needed to explain (which she didn’t). “Riley, she’s my friend and she liked
you a lot. You hurt her feelings.”
    I mockingly covered my heart with
my hand. “Well, you hurt mine, Zoey—calling me a heartbreaker.”
    She rolled her eyes, but she was
smiling. Mocking right back to me, “Right. I hurt the Heartbreaker’s heart with
my cruel, cruel words. Can you ever forgive me? Please?” She held out a
basketball to me. “Here, have a free throw—it’s on me. And then we’re
even.”
    “Even?” I leaned over the counter
of the booth, tilting my head up at her. “I’ll make us even.” The words came
out more husky than I’d meant.
    Zoey tilted her head at me, her
eyes full of question. Like, What are you
talking about strange heartbreaker boy?
    “Here’s five dollars,” I said
softly.
      “Ok-ayy,” she said, like I was acting funny. But she didn’t
question it. She figured she just didn’t get me and that was okay with her
since she usually didn’t have to. I was just a guy she had to tolerate for
Finn’s sake—but she didn’t have to understand me.
    Without questioning me, she took my
money and gave me five balls.
    “Okay.” I took one of the balls and
tossed it from one hand to the other. I grinned at her. “If I make the shot,
then I want what the bottom row says.”
    She scrunched up her brow and
followed my gaze to the sign. She read the bottom row, then breathed out a gasp. Five dollars—one kiss . Until that moment, she hadn’t noticed it written there. Apparently. Now she was
all red-faced again. And I tried telling myself I did it just for that—to
see her pretty blush again.
    She stammered out, “Right—well,
I’ll send Jade right over.”
    “Jade dumped me—remember?”
The words weren’t true—I’d dumped her. But Zoey didn’t know that. For
some reason, I liked her to think I was crushed—maybe so she wouldn’t
think I was such a heartbreaker.
    “I’m sorry,” Zoey whispered,
turning pale. “I didn’t know that’s what happened. Jade’s dumb. You deserve better.”
    I widened my eyes. Her words did
something to the pit of my stomach.
    Trying to console me (I guess) she
blurted out, “If you make the shot—I’ll give you this pretty stuffed
snake.”
    My eyebrows went up. Along with the corners of my mouth. “No, I want the kiss.”
    “Right,” she laughed. “I doubt it
will make anyone jealous but Finn. Jade’s not around—she won’t see.”
    I tossed the ball back and forth,
back and forth, from one hand to the other, not saying anything, just watching
her.
    “I don’t want to make anyone
jealous,” I said. “I just want the kiss.”
    Zoey’s lips parted slightly, and
she dropped the stuffed snake she was holding. But she recovered quickly.
      “Sure,” she said with a forced shrug, trying to act as though
her cheeks weren’t on fire. But they were as red as a juicy, ripe tomato. Then
she added with a wicked smile, “ If you make the shot.”
    I grinned, raising my eyebrows.
“So, we have a deal?”
    “Sure,” she said again, but then
she added, because that’s Zoey, “But just so you know—and don’t get your
heartbreaker feelings hurt—no one’s made the shot the whole hour I’ve
been here.”
    A lazy smile spread across my lips.
“But we have a deal?”
      “Right, we have a deal,” she teased. “ If you make the shot you win the big, gigantic, humungous prize that we all know you’re dying for—a
kiss from me.”
    A slow smirk spread on my face.
    She took it wrong. “What? You’re
going to throw it backwards? Into the trashcan?”
    Without answering her, I took the
shot. And made it.
    I couldn’t help another smirk
stretching across my lips. ‘Cause she