Chapter 57

"Rok kae kosa ruks rar vurdk?" (Are you at a loss of words?) "Nu!" (No!) "Kvaod." (Talk.) I pursed my lips as I started to look at my nails like they were the most interesting thing in the world. "Would you let me go to a party?" I mumbled the words in an attempt to keep him from hearing. It didn't work. "What party? Where is it? And who is going to be there?" He was actually entertaining the thought. "Prom… The school… Every kid who isn't a complete loser." He didn't look over at me. Instead he gripped the steering wheel a little tighter. Was that his way of saying no? "Who would you go with?" I didn't think about that. I mean, couldn't he come with me? So what he isn't in high school. "You?" I asked hopefully. Now he smirked before he lightly shook his head. "That means you would have to leave early." He looked over at me completely serious. "I can't stay at prom with you all through the night.