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“Right? You should have seen Dad earlier,” Poppy chuckled. “He barely held it together.”
“Oh, I don’t know. He did okay.”
I was proud of the way he was handling things, all things considered. No father wanted to see his daughter getting hot and heavy with their boyfriend. Yet, he’d somehow managed to shelve his anger to focus on me, and what I needed.
He and Kaiden even shook hands before we left to come here, which was a huge step in the right direction.
The only thing left to overcome was school on Monday. But I wasn’t thinking about that yet, because if I thought about it, my palms went slick, my heart went haywire, and the walls started to close in.
“Who’d have thought that out of everyone, you’d be the first to get a boyfriend.”
“Gee, thanks, Poppy.”
“Oh, I didn’t mean it like that.”
“I know.”
She gave me a warm smile. “Now Dad should be a breeze when I finally find a guy I want to date.” Her eyes slid over to Aaron but quickly darted away.
“You should tell him,” I whispered.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” She kept saying that, but she wasn’t fooling me for a second.
“What are we doing tonight?” Peyton asked, texting someone on her phone.
“Tonight?”
“Yeah, it’s Saturday. We always do something.”
“I figured we’d hang here,” Ashleigh said, glancing at something on Peyton’s cell. They shared a conspiratorial look.
“Who is that?” I asked.
“No one.”
“Peyton, what are you up to?”
“Nothing,” she smiled.
“Why do I not like the sound of that?”
“Babe, this is me. Don’t you trust me?”
I wanted to say yes, because she was my best friend.
But they were up to something.
And after her little stunt this morning, she couldn’t be trusted.
Chapter Thirty-Four
Kaiden
“We’re uh,we’re going to… go.” Peyton grabbed Bryan’s hand and pulled him toward the door.
“Go? Go where?” Lily’s brows drew together.
“He’s going to help me with something. Isn’t that right, Bry?”
