Holly Winslow was caught off guard and choked. "COUGH, COUGH..."
If even one of those "romances" of hers had been real, her teachers would have sent her home for good.
Middle schoolers were even more childish than high schoolers. If she so much as spoke to a boy, it meant she was dating him.
Meeting her husband's dark, scrutinizing gaze, she said, "No, Mortimer was my first love."
"Huh?"
Chet Sutton said disbelievingly, "I thought you were with Liam Kensington from the honors class. If I had known..."
If he had known, he would have pursued her, and he might not be single now.
Mortimer Quincy's face turned livid. He thought the "wild ducks" that had popped up in high school were more than enough, but it turned out there were even more in junior high.
'If I could go back to our junior high days, I'd strangle every last one of these ugly ducklings.'
He took a deep breath and said lightly to the group, "My wife is just too popular. There are a lot of guys with hopeless crushes."
