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hidden my tracks a lot more carefully.
    “It doesn’t really
matter now.” She pulled away from me. “You’re just a guy, and I’m just a girl.
I know you like to go to the pier to steal cars at night. And you know that I
like to watch romance movies.”
    “I see.” I
frowned. If the fact that I liked to steal cop cars at the pier was well known,
then I had to choose another spot.
    “I wanted to see
what it felt like to be a car thief.” She shook her head and frowned. “I wanted
to be in your head.”
    “Why?” I looked at
her in confusion.
    “I don’t know. I
didn’t think it through properly. I figured maybe you would wonder who the new
thief in your territory was, and maybe you’d come find me.”
    “Now who’s
watching too many movies?” I laughed and ran my hands through my hair. “I can’t
say I really understand, but I guess I get it.”
    “I just wanted to …”
She shook her head. “Oh, what does it matter? I’m too tired to explain.”
    “I want to know.”
    “Are you going to
take me out tomorrow night on a date?”
    “No.”
    “Are you planning
on ever seeing me again?”
    I looked at her
and at that moment, I wished that I could give her a different answer. “No. No,
I’m not,” I replied honestly, I didn’t tell her that I wished that the circumstances
were different. It didn’t matter what I wished; they weren’t now and would
never be.
    “So it doesn’t
matter then. I was just a stupid rich girl.” She let out a quick
self-deprecating laugh.
    “You’re not stupid.”
I shook my head, wishing I knew what I could say to make her feel better. My
intent had been to hurt her, but now, seeing her crushed and disappointed face,
it didn’t feel as good as I had always hoped it would.
    “Whatever. It was
nice finally meeting you, Logan Martelli .” She gave
me a quick kiss on the cheek and pulled away from me. She walked slowly up to
her house and I stood there in impenetrable silence as I watched her walking
away from me. I saw her at the front door and then walked back to the car. I sat
in the driver’s seat and stared at the house, unseeing. I didn’t even have to
have my eyes open to picture every detail of that house and lawn. I’d been here
so many times, sitting in a car, staring and listening to stories. I’d hated
this street and this house for more than half my life. I’d hated the family
that lived in that house for as long as I could remember. Even though I’d seen
the mayor and his wife before, I’d never seen Maddie. We didn’t even know she
was called Maddie; we knew her as Maddison. I had hated Maddison Wright and her
family with every bone in my body, and now I sat in my car with a ball of
confused emotions. Because I didn’t hate Maddie, not even a little bit. I
didn’t hate Maddie at all. But there was nothing I could do to ever let Maddie
know that.

 
    ***
    As I walked
through the front door, it felt like I had been away for years, even though it
had only been a few hours. I surveyed the mess in the house, and laughed to
myself at the sight. I could only imagine the shock on Maddie’s face if I had
brought her here.
    “Logan, what did you
get?” My dad’s gruff voice called out to me, and I saw him sitting on the large,
scruffy brown leather couch, with a beer in his hand.
    “Toyota.”
    “Highlander?”
    “Corolla.”
    “Good for resale.”
He nodded and took a swig of beer. “We got worried. Why were you gone so long?”
    “There was some
drama on the pier, I had to wait it out.”
    “No one saw you,
though?” He looked up through small eyes. “I don’t need the police coming to
harass me tonight.”
    “No one saw.”
    “Good.” He frowned
as he drank the last of his beer and threw the can into the corner. “Go and get
me another beer from the fridge.”
    “Okay.” I walked
to the kitchen quietly, not bothering to ask if he was sure he wanted another.
I no longer cared how drunk and obnoxious he got; he wasn’t ever