CHAPTER 15

CHAPTER 15

JESS

I'd spent the entire Saturday hauled up in my room, refusing to leave. Between Laura and Sam, I had enough snacks to last me through winter, and I'm stocked with action-packed movies. No romcoms because boys suck

All of them.

Josh hasn't checked in on me once, and neither has Luke.

It's fine.

I didn't care.

They didn't care.

I texted Josh that I didn't want our parents to know. They were in Paris for the next month, and Luke's parents joined them. Nothing happened anyway, so there was nothing to tell.

"OK," and that was it-the full extent of our brother-sister

I heard Josh leave the house. He didn't mention where he was going, and I didn't care. Thad space. I could leave my room without the risk of getting a pity look from my brother. The house was eerily quiet, and it

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for a second. But that somehow seemed wrong could I just go outside and enjoy the day after everything?

be mourning something; I just don't know what.

my kitchen sat Luke, eating cereal like it's the most normal thing to do on a Sunday morning in

the hallway, but Luke stopped me. "No, Wait. Stay. I mean, you're out. Out of your room."

around the island to grab a bowl of cereal for myself. We ate in silence at opposite ends of the counter for a few minutes until the question in my head finally just came out. "Why are you here?" Luke didn't even look up. He kept chewing and shoveling spoons full of cereal into his

you mean

swallowed hard. They were taking shifts to make sure I was OK? Did I wake up in an

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something?

needed to get out of here. I needed to run. I usually go first thing in the morning, but I didn't care that it was not

going for a run," I said to the

cross his face, and then he said a little softer now, "You are not going running

forward, trapping me between the

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