“No, what’s up?” she replied.
“I wanted to talk to you about Nick,” he said, sitting down next to her.
“Oh, okay.”
“I wanted to warn you about-”
“Brian, I’ll be fine. If he breaks my heart, I am fit to handle it. It’s not like I’ve never been hurt before. I’m not that fragile.”
“No, that wasn’t what I was talking about I just want you to be careful. I know you guys…well, you do things, and I don’t want you to get pregnant or anything.”
“Gosh, I know!” she exclaimed, obviously annoyed. “Don’t worry, I won’t get pregnant, I won’t mess up your reputation, I won’t get Nick in trouble, and I won’t get hurt, okay?”
“Mattie, you know that’s not what I mean,” he said. “I just want to make sure you’re careful. I don’t want something to happen to you.”
She sighed heavily. “I wish you could just trust us.”
“I do trust you. It’s just that Mom and Dad are trusting me to watch over you, and I wanna do that well. So just be careful.”
“Fine, I will.”