"Do you expect me to believe you?"
"If you want, you can go ask him." Seeing that she still didn't believe me, I added, "Listen, when we were kids, I used to have a crush on him. We probably would have ended up dating if he hadn't confessed that he was gay."
It was true. After James gave me my first kiss during that charity fundraiser, he apologized and asked me to forgive him. Apparently, he had only wanted to know what it felt like to kiss a girl. So while I was hopelessly in love with James, he was hopelessly in love with Brandon Holmes, a boy who had lived in our neighborhood a long, long time ago. From what I'd heard, Brandon eventually moved to a small town somewhere in Nevada.
"Yesterday I heard him say he thought he had a chance with you."
"No. He asked if you were my boyfriend
