Chapter 9Josie’s pelvis was doing the thing again. The moment she’d woken up, and turned on her side, flames of pain danced inside of her. She clutched her bottle of pills and took what she’d needed along with food, but it had barely left a dent in her pain. From her ankles to her knees, and then deep inside her hip joints, she felt as if she was on fire.
Then Rebecca had kissed her. And she was so sure she’d been cured.
Of course, the kiss was a play kiss. It wasn’t real in the way her first kiss with her best friend, Lenny, was real and stolen under the bleachers at school. But still, Rebecca’s lips had been against her own. Her body had been so close. And while her body had always been close to her, in bed or during physio, this was different now, too. The kiss was real, even if the c
