"Hot," I corrected without thinking and then my cheeks flushed a deep red. This wasn't the right time at all, not with Peter coming, not with the pirates staring at us suspiciously, but it had just come out and it wasn't as if I wanted to take it back.

I wasn't sure I had ever used the word before, but it was the only one that described what I was seeing now. It sounded a little silly in my accent, not like it did when the girls at school said it, but it was still the best word I knew.

"I mean... this is a bad time for this," I said. "I think Peter is coming or he might be trying to send the Many-Eyed and I always think you're hot, which you probably already know, because, well." I shut up quickly, not needing to get into that sort of conversation right now. "But you are."