Keitha wasn’t wrong. Shaw didn’t overhear what his sister told their mother, but in less than ten minutes, Lin was at their door.
“Okay, what’s happened? Shaw, how did that…that thing get around your neck? Don’t leave anything out.” Lin folded her arms and glowered at him. Shaw felt as if he was six years old all over again.
Thankful that he had a supportive family, Shaw even mentioned the kiss, although he moved swiftly past it, and kept the way it had made him feel to himself. At the end of the story he waited for his mother to either burst out laughing or accuse him and Keitha of concocting it all as an elaborate prank.
His world tilted slightly when she did neither.
“Have you noticed anything recently?” Lin asked Keitha, who shook her head. “Nothing at all? Are you telling me this
