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CASSIE
Cassie drove too fast and left her helmet visor open. She couldn’t cry with the wind stinging her eyes.
She didn’t know where she was going. Took roads she hadn’t taken before. She just wanted to getaway. Riding usually cleared her mind, but her thoughts were too messy.
The whole semester. Parker’s distance. Their fight. Acacia, stuck in the middle. None of it was what she’d thought it was.
The way Erin didn’t disagree with Parker’s claim they were dating.
That one made even less sense than the rest.
Cassie knew it looked like they were dating. Acacia had been telling her that for months, and Cassie could see it. They enjoyed each other’s company and liked having sex. It took Cassie until this fucking week to realize it was anything other than that. But Erin didn’t want to date her. That was what she’d told Rachel.
Maybe not in those specific words, but that was the gist.
She pulled off the road at a park.
This was so messed up. She needed to talk to her best friend.
Acacia picked up the phone with: “Did Parker get ahold of you?”
Cassie twisted her ponytail around her fist and yanked, the pressure and pain grounding her. “Not until after Adam walked in on me and Erin making out in her kitchen.”
“Shit.”
“Tell me about it.”
“He didn’t kill you, at least. Unless this is your ghost calling me.”
Cassie laughed quietly at that. Dialing Acacia, she’d been ready to cry, but she couldn’t help herself when it came to this idiot.
“Still alive, unfortunately,” she said.
“Agree to disagree on the fortunateness of that fact.”
“Okay but it’d be easier to be dead than deal with this.”
“It’d be easier to be dead than to figure out what to eat for dinner every day, too, doesn’t mean it’s unfortunate to put a frozen pizza in the oven for the third night in a row.”
“Forget Adam,” Cassie said instead of admitting Acacia had a point. “How’d you convinceParkernot to kill me?”
“Yeah, that took some work,” Acacia said. “And almost two months.”
“So she wasn’t just like, really obsessed with Sam after Valentine’s Day?”
“No, she definitely was. She just also wanted to murder you.”
Cassie huffed out another laugh. “Yeah, that sounds about right.”
Acacia made everything easier. Everything was still a mess and Cassie was still going to have to figure her shit out, but talking to Kaysh, it didn’t feel as impossible.
“I’m sorry I didn’t tell you,” Acacia said. “She knew—on Valentine’s Day, she figured out that I’d known. I don’t know, my face or something when she told me about the texts. But I didn’t tell her any specifics, really, just that you were kind of hung up on her mom.”
Cassie tugged on her ponytail again. “Understatement of the year, it turns out.”
“Yeah,” Kaysh agreed. “Honestly, I wasn’t surprised Parker came to terms with y’all dating before you did.”
Cassie wasn’t sure they had yet. Erin didn’t want to date her, right?
