“I just got a call from Jake!” Heather chirped animatedly. “He wants to see me tonight. I think we actually gonna do it tonight!”

I couldn’t help but giggle as always. She said it in the same blonde-tinted way she always did, before laughing at her own subtle joke.
“I missed you, girl,” she says, suddenly sombre.
“Yeah, me too.” I let her launch a hug into me, closing my arms around her back. “Love you,” I whispered into her ear.

Suddenly, something switched on inside of me. Love you, I had whispered, almost romantically into her ear. All other thoughts of Stats and Jacob and Perry and Connor flew out of my brain.

The thing is, I don’t even like Jacob that much.