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sorry.” He shook his head. Heather had no idea what he was sorry about, but she immediately felt her heart drop down into her stomach. Good Lord, this was bad.
    â€œWhat?” she said, trying to mask her concern.
    â€œI’m sorry, I just have to ask…”
    â€œAsk
what?”
she whined inadvertently.
    â€œOkay,” he said, planting his elbows on the table with a confrontational glance. “When I found you here last night…”
    Oh God. Busted. Totally busted. Heather grabbed her lukewarm latte and guzzled half of it down, looking for a calming jolt of caffeine. He knew she’d been waiting for him. He must have known that she’d been on a five-hour stakeout for him. She might as well have had a huge pair of binoculars hanging around her neck, a pith helmet, and a group of resentful natives carrying her supplies. She’d fallen down into the ranks of the hunter-explorer girls. The millions of non-self-respecting Stalker skanks across the nation who lived for no other purpose than to entrapsome unsuspecting
dude
and seduce their way into last-resort-late-night-hookup status with him.
    â€œI just don’t understand,” Josh went on as Heather cringed internally.
Go on. Say it. Just say it.
“I don’t understand what a beautiful girl like you could have possibly been doing alone at Starbucks last night.”
    Heather’s head suddenly felt much lighter. Another compliment. Not the end of the line. Could she be any more sensitive? Any more of a full-blown loser?
Relax, girl. You’re Heather Gannis, for God’s sake. Never to be confused with the pathetic hunter skanks of the world.
She tried to shake off her panic as quickly as possible, hoping it hadn’t shown through her long-rehearsed emergency smile.
    â€œCome on, tell me the truth,” he said with a sly grin. “Did you
just
break up with your boyfriend or something?”
    She was so relieved to be undiscovered that she didn’t even bother holding back with her answer. “Well, not exactly
just,”
she said, without even thinking. She guzzled some more latte to ease her sudden dry mouth. “It was a little while ago, but
after
we broke up… he kind of moved on to this other girl I know.”
    Ugh. That had been unpleasant to say out loud. Did Josh really need to know this?
    â€œOoh,” Josh groaned with a comic wince. “Were you, like, good friends with this other girl?”
    â€œNo.”
Heather laughed, looking more and more at her coffee. “Far from it.”
    She found herself wondering what Ed and Gaia were doing at this very moment. The last time she’d seen them, Gaia had actually gone pretty much berserk in the cafeteria, spewing out a totally uncharacteristic jealous tirade at Ed and her new Russian roommate (or something), Tatiana.
    Watching them fight could have provided some kind of weird relief for Heather, as if maybe things weren’t so damn heavenly in the world of Ed and Gaia. But the fact was, watching Gaia go nuts on Ed and Tatiana had only made Heather feel worse. Jealousy. It was the ultimate proof Heather had needed. If she’d had any doubts, now she knew for sure that Gaia was in love with Ed. Only love could make a girl go off on someone like that.
    So what were they doing at this moment? They’d probably made up already. And two people are never more in love than when they make up after a fight. They make up. And then they have the makeup hug. And then the makeup kissing.
    And then the makeup sex.
    That’s probably what they were doing at this moment. Having wild, passionate makeup sex.
Whatever. She doesn’t deserve him. She doesn’t deserve to know what it feels like to be with him. I was his
first.
There’s nothing anyone can do to change—
    Whoa, Heather. New leaf! Where the hell is your new leaf?
    Right. The new leaf that Heather had worked sohard to turn over. She was through with resentment,