The bus pulled away from the resort, engine humming low. Kofi stared out the window at pine trees blurring past, his reflection pale against the dark glass. The campfire still burned behind his eyes.
'God, I'm such an idiot.'
He kept replaying it, hearing his own voice like it belonged to someone else, those three statements hanging there in the air. He'd wanted to tell her something real, something about how the last few days had felt, but instead he'd picked the stupidest possible way to do it and ruined everything.
Across the aisle, Nina sat with her arms crossed, staring at the seat back in front of her like she was trying to burn a hole through it.
'What the hell am I supposed to do with that? Was he joking? Because it wasn't funny. And if he wasn't joking, then what? He just confessed? In front of everyone? Why would he do that to me?'
