Chapter 24: SIAN

After lunch he walked me to my next class and told me he'd see me at last bell. Of course now that he was gone there was lots of speculation from the other kids, though no one came to me personally.

"What's going on with your brother?" Belle dropped down beside me in a funk.

"Like?"

"Why is he being so nice to me?"

"Uh, maybe because he is nice?"

"Yeah well guys like him don't usually talk to girls like me so what gives?"

"Belle, we're gonna have to have a talk about your low self image. Save it for Saturday night. I'm going to need all the time I can get to fix your brand of nutty." She almost pushed me off my chair but I didn't retaliate because the teacher came in just then.

I could feel Mandy, boring holes into the back of my head, but didn't turn around. I have to remember to ask Jace what exactly had gone on between those two.

Mom said it was okay to go to Jace's place to meet his folks but she insisted that she had to get his mother's number so they could talk and make s