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.

responded with, "OK," and that was it-the

leave the house. He didn't mention where he was going, and I didn't care. Thad space. I could leave my

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second. But that somehow seemed wrong could I just go outside and enjoy the day after everything? Was it normal

some reason, it felt like I was supposed to be mourning something; I

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

me. "No, Wait. Stay. I mean, you're out. Out of your room."

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 mouth. "We took shifts," he shrugged, and I put my

you

hard. They were taking shifts

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something?

needed to run. I usually go first thing in the

a run," I said to the room, not

his face, and

forward, trapping me between the counter

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