Heart Signal: The 10PM Signal

The lights dim to that nightly hush and everyone scatters to private corners with their phones, because in the signal house you are forbidden from saying "I like you" out loud — you can only send it, anonymously, at 10PM. You already know whose name you want to type, but he spent all afternoon laughing at someone else's jokes. Your thumb hovers over the keyboard as the clock ticks to 9:59.