Ethan asked, falling into step with Sarah as they left chemistry a couple of weeks later. He’d started following her out when he bothered to show up to class, and Sarah figured it would be weird not to walk to lunch together, since they pretty much always ate at the same table. Sarah hadn’t thought she would still hang out with Izzy and Karina once they were done helping her get settled. But they’d made her a real part of their group of friends, including her in everything—including eating basically every meal together. They both still disappeared in the middle of the night once in a while, but they hadn’t gone together since that first strange night. A couple mornings a week Izzy was up and out of the room before Sarah and Karina woke up. Karina called it Izzy’s “secret assignation,” and Sarah figured she didn’t need the details. She glanced over at Ethan. He was almost painfully good-looking—and knew it. Still, sometimes when she was with him, she got a crazy impulse to reach out and trace the perfect shape of his upper lip with one finger.
