A smile spread across her best friend’s face when she noticed that she was home. “Yay! You’re finished doing whatever you had to do. Now you can hang out with me.” Samara rolled her eyes. “I can’t hang out with you for that long. I have to get ready for my date with Luke soon.” “Oh.” Emma’s face fell. “Well, what am I supposed to do all night?” Samara shrugged. “Maybe you could hang out with Ashley and Bri?” Ashley Everest and Brielle Morris were two of Emma’s best friends from school. They spent most of their time at the mall shopping or gossiping about boys . . . when they weren’t partying at Emma’s house, of course. But now that Emma was no longer living at home, it seemed that her days of throwing parties for most of their high school class were over. Samara wondered if Emma had realized it already. “I don’t want to hang out with Ashley or Bri,”
