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ed so long and walked across the street。
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A few minutes later I saw Bryce ing down the sidewalk toward his house。 I did a double
take。 All this time I'd thought he was inside the house
watching; and he was really outside walking around? I was embarrassed all over again。
I turned my back on him and concentrated on watering the yard。 What a fool I was! What a
plete idiot! And I had just built up a nice head of
angry steam when I heard; “It's looking good; Juli。 Nice job。”
It was Bryce; standing right there on our driveway。 And suddenly I wasn't mad at me
anymore。 I was mad at him。 How could he stand there like my
supervisor and tell me; Nice job? He had no business saying anything after what he'd done。
I was about to hose him down when he said; “I'm sorry for what I did; Juli。 It was; you know…
wrong。”
I looked at him—into those brilliant blue eyes。 And I tried to do what Chet had said—I tried to
look past them。 What was behind them? What was
he thinking? Was he really sorry? Or was he just feeling bad about the things he'd said?
It was like looking into the sun; though; and I had to turn away。
I couldn't tell you what we talked about after that; except that he was nice to me and he made
me laugh。 And after he left; I shut off the water and
went inside feeling very; very strange。
The rest of the evening I bounced back and fort