It wasn’t that Tucker was incapable of focused thought. Just look at him examining those sandwiches. There was study bordering on devotion. But at times it seemed that he was incapable of focused thought on homework. Or what Lizzie was saying.

Maybe it was just super focused, so he could think of only one thing at a time?

Maybe he was just obtuse?

"What? I don't right know what you're talking about,"

“I’d love tae believe yer that guileless, but I kanna,” Lizzie said. “Ye ken right well I’m talking about the Masque. The whole who’s who game? I mean, what exactly was the point of that? Did it no occur to you that I might not like being treated like an idiot?”

She loved her Tucker, but at times he frustrated her. Weren’t the males supposed to be the ambitious ones? Weren’t they expected to take the lead? But from the very beginning everything had been up to her.

Not that she minded, altogether. Just that sometimes…. well sometimes she like Tucker to show some initiative. And especially not to follow Joel so much.

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