Ivy managed to keep her cool throughout the rest of that lunch period despite the fact that a bomb had been dropped on her. She didn't end up paying attention to anything happening in her next class but that wasn't a big deal since it was P.E. and they were running the mile.
Carson hadn't quite managed to cover his thoughts by thinking of completely random things in time today. She recognized those kinds of thoughts immediately. How could she not after attending public school for so long?
Those were the thoughts of someone with a crush. And they were directed at her for the first time in her life.
If every time he thought something completely off-topic out of the blue was to hide thoughts about his feelings for her…he had been crushing on her at least since this summer. How on earth was he able to hide it that long?!