CHAPTER 14
Darren hadn’t left her side all night. Jennifer had promised herself to leave Kylee’s by eleven, but it was nearly midnight, and she was no closer to going home than she’d been when she first arrived.
“Isn’t your dad going to get mad if he finds out you’re here?” Darren asked. He had a dimple in his right cheek when he smiled.
And he’d been smiling the entire time he and Jennifer had been talking.
Jennifer didn’t like the fact that everyone in her school seemed to know how protective her father was, so she gave a convincing laugh and shrugged. “What he doesn’t know can’t hurt him, right?”
Darren laughed too, a confident, easy laugh. Jennifer wasn’t sure she’d ever been as relaxed and happy as he appeared to be right now as they sat side by side in Kylee’s living room.
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