Page 18 of The Dating Pact

She turned her phone, so I could see her face again. “I’d love to talk longer, but I have to make dinner and record a teaching demonstration. But before I go, here’s a joke one of the kids told me today. ‘What do you call two guys who like math?’”

You had to love Everly and her affinity with puns. I racked my brain for a possible answer, but in the end, I gave up. “No idea.”

After a dramatic pause, she blurted out, “Alge-bros. Get it?”

I groaned. “That’s so bad it’s actually funny.”

“I know, right? That’s why I had to share it with you.” Ev’s smile drooped, her expression turning thoughtful. “I miss you, Wy.”

Her words hit me like a punch to the gut. “Miss you, too, Ev.”

Much more than you realize.

Only two more months until I went home, and then I’d finally confess how I felt.

Why did two months suddenly feel more like two years?