There had to be a name for what was wrong with me.
Seriously, whenever I spent time in Bunker Nine, the butterflies in my stomach started to rebel. Maybe there was something wrong in the cave, like some magical contraption was sending out weird vibes (like that from the spacecraft in the Tommyknockers), or all the old dust that still lingered around was affecting me, making my heart go all whacky.
Sure. Believe that if you want.
I wondered if Leo felt the same way, so I asked him during one of our lessons.
He looked at me funny, and raised a confused brow in an adorable way, oddly. I noticed the grease stains on his face and clothes and thought to myself that he looked kinda attractive like that, all dirtied up and messy. Oddly.
Leo's voice broke me out of the daze. "Helloooo? Earth to Kai."
He knocked on my forehead like it was a door.
I blinked. "Sorry bout that, I zoned out. What did you say?"
He rolled his eyes. "I said that I felt fine. You're probably just weird."
I hit his arm playfully. "Whatever, Leo."
"Hey, you brought it up."
I went back to reading to Leo as worked on some complicated machiney thing (I called it the flux capacitor. Leo hated it when I called it that). I'd glance up at him every now and then to watch him work. Leo would almost catch me looking at him and I would quickly look back down and continue to read.
I felt a blush creep up onto my face again. Maybe I was just weird.
Yeah, that made sense.