“What happened to you?”
The next day, when I finally went back to school, Taz cornered me at my locker. Well, her locker was there too, but she already had her books in hand, and she didn’t make a move to open her locker. I turned around, gathering my things, and closed my locker.
“Good morning to you too.”
She wasn’t looking at me—her eyes cut to the side like she was refusing to look at me.
“You were supposed to make sure Race’s dad did the sponsor ad, but that was days ago. You’ve been gone from school, and my brother skipped school yesterday too.”
Jordan and Zellman as well, I added silently. We’d hung out in Jordan’s storage shed the whole day. We played video games and watched movies. And we napped, which I was most happy about. The guys smoked. A few beers were consumed, but th
