"Okay... Seriously, what's on your mind?" Hannah asked with an amused smile and I shook my head to clear it. I completely missed what she just said.
"Sorry?"
"I just asked you if you wanted to go for a swim in the duck pond." She gestured at the small body of water in front of the park bench we were sitting on, full of quacking ducks and ducklings. "And you were all like, 'yeah, sure, babe.'" She raised her pitch slightly to imitate my voice (she was so cute, it hurt). "So, your mind is obviously elsewhere."
"It's nothing."
"Ellie..."
"It's awkward."
"So? Tell me anyway." She shrugged a shoulder. "I wanna know."
"I was just curious—when did you know you liked-liked me?" I internally rolled my eyes at the playground terminology I was using. I didn't want to use a different L-word tho
