"Do girls always say it first?" He crunched the end of the potato, too thick to bake but too thin to slice again. "It doesn't really seem fair.
"Do girls just know first? Or are boys just that thick?"
He set the knife aside and dug into his pocket for a hair tie, pulling his long hair off his face into a ponytail. Alex wiped his hands on a towel, then turned back to his slicing. "Or do they just say it first, to make us feel like we're slacking off?"