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“I need a break,” Jenna says, plopping down on her bed. “So how long have you dated Easton?”
Here come the questions. I knew she’d start asking me stuff eventually.
“We’re not dating. We’re just friends.”
“You told everyone at Thanksgiving that you guys were dating.”
“We were then. We aren’t now.”
“Then why did Mom call you Easton’s girlfriend?”
“She thought we were dating, but we’re not.”
“Why’d you guys break up?”
“Because I don’t know if I’m staying here. And Easton’s moving to Madison next year so it’s better if we’re just friends.”
She picks up a fuzzy white pillow from her bed and runs her hand over it as she lays back against the wall of pillows behind her. She must have at least ten pillows, maybe more. It’s hard to tell when they’re all stacked up in front of each other.
“Why don’t you go to Madison with him?” she asks.
“I’m not going to college.”
“You’re not?”
“No. So what else do you want to show me?”
“I can show you more later. Mom texted me and said I need to let you rest.”
“Oh. Then I guess I’ll go downstairs.”
“Can’t you just move there anyway? To Madison?”
“Um, maybe. I don’t know yet.”
“He really likes you,” Jenna says, petting her fuzzy pillow. “I’ve never seen him get this crazy over a girl.” She leans toward me, like she’s about to share a secret. “I overheard him telling Mom and Dad that he’d move out if they tried to keep him from seeing you.”
“Yeah, he told me.”
She sits back, seeming disappointed that I already knew that. She pauses a moment, then perks up, like she thought of another secret. “People at school are saying all this stuff about you, but Easton keeps telling them it’s not true.”
“What are they saying?”
“That you go to a special high school for teenagers that get in trouble. And that you did all this bad stuff and spent time in juvie.”
Who found that out, and how? I’m a minor. Those records are supposed to be sealed.
“Is it true?” Jenna asks. “Did you get in trouble?”
“Jenna, I’m really tired and I’m not feeling good. Can we talk later?” I get up from the chair.
“Tell me.” She leaps off her bed and over to me. “Did you get sent to juvie?”
Someone knocks on the door. It opens and Penelope comes in. “Nova, I think you should try to get some sleep. You’ve been up for a while.”
“Yeah, I was just leaving.”
“Mom, we were in the middle of a conversation,” Jenna says.
