Wyatt was lost in thought, and Simone didn't try to engage him in conversation. Wyatt imagined Simone was fantasizing that Brady would ask her to go to the dance on the spur of the moment, like Wyatt had just done with Nicole. He couldn’t stop asking himself how he could have been crazy enough to ask Nicole out. They were years past any hope of a relationship, and, besides, she was involved with someone else, even if she seemed to conveniently forget about her boyfriend when it suited her. He knew he should just find an excuse and back out. But he didn't want to. Something about being with her just made him feel good. Maybe it was the throwback to his youth when he’d been unencumbered by responsibility, free to be the bad-boy because it was what was expected of him. Besides that, Nicole Ross still made his blood rush through his veins the way no other woman ever had. They were both adults. Why shouldn't they explore that electricity that so obviously still sparked between them? No way would feelings get involved this time—they were no longer kids, but adults, in full control of their emotions.
