He’d sounded weird and tense on the phone, and I’d had a moment’s doubt about dragging him away from whatever he was doing, but his answer had seemed sincere enough. “Give me ten minutes,” he’d said. He made it to the house in five, and I practically ran over the lawn to c...
She knew it was stupid, and if someone had asked what she was doing she would have lied. Well, no. If most people had asked, she would have lied. But she was pretty sure she would have told the truth to Josh. After all, it was his forest. And the way he maintained the trai...
Everyone else was still working on theirs, since Oliver had extended his beyond going to the first youth group meeting to actually spending some time with the guy he’d met there. “I want you to keep going with the math,” Claudia told me as she traced invisible lines from t...
“I thought it would make him ease off,” I tried. “When I told Scott about us? I thought it would make it easier for you, because he’d know he wasn’t really winning. I don’t know why he’s still acting like a jerk.” And I didn’t know why Toby was letting it get to him. “Has ...