Chapter 91: Chapter 91: Questions For Quaid

By the time school wrapped up for the day, yet another success/failure since I'd failed to really learn much, but succeeded in not harming myself or anyone else, I'd almost forgotten about Benjamin and my weak sort-of promise.

That is until I found myself crossing the threshold into Johnny's and saw him sitting at a booth, smiling at me.

Oh crap. The last person I wanted to talk to, really.

"I'm going to head home." Just looking at that smile made my head start pounding. Alison must have seen the pain in my face because her concern was immediate.

"Another migraine?" She squeezed my hand, offering me an excuse out of one of my own lies.

How convenient.

"Um, yeah." I pulled away, offered a weak smile. "Getting them a lot lately." Benjamin was up and moving toward us. For some reason I felt totally and utterly repelled. Like if he came near me I'd implode or something. The headache excuse was very real at last. "Sorry, gang."