"Sorry about earlier. Glad you're back. Rough day. Talk tomorrow?" the text message from Bay vibrated in my hand. I shrugged my shoulders and texted her back.
"K, nite." I turned off the lights and fell asleep pretty quickly after that. It had been a long day. I even fell asleep before getting a chance to plug in my phone, leaving me with an almost dead battery in the morning.
Bay was already waiting for me by the time I made it to school. She looked very nervous and was pacing through the grass until she saw me.
"I texted you a few times this morning," Bay spoke and signed slowly.
"What? No good morning kiss?" I signed.
"Please, Emmett," she signed back.
I signed "okay" and held out my phone so she could see that it was dead.
"Oh," she said.
"So what's going on?"
"I need to talk to you about something. It's important."
"Okay."
"Was Liam Daphne's first boyfriend?" she asked me.
"Yes," I signed. "There's no one else I can remember."
"Are you sure?" Bay asked.
"Yes," I signed. She didn't say anything so I tried to continue the conversation. "Why?"
"I know it's ridiculous," she said, rolling her eyes up to the sky, "but do you think she might not even like guys?"
"That is ridiculous," I signed. I saw Daphne walking across the way and waved her over. Bay turned around, saw Daphne coming over, and took a few steps backwards.
"I have to go," she said. She walked past Daphne and they didn't even look at each other.
"Why did Bay just ask me if Liam was your first boyfriend?" I asked Daphne.
"I don't know," she said.
"You're lying," I said. I could always tell when she was lying.
"I'm not," she said, and walked away in the opposite direction she had come from.
I charged my phone in the library during my lunch period. As soon as it turned on again I texted Bay with "What is going on with you two?" I never got a response to that question.