It was Brian at the door.
“What do you want?” I asked, my heart thudding and hoping he wouldn’t enter my room.
“Why haven’t you been replying to my text,” he asked.
“Because I was sleeping.”
“Oh, I was texting about what we spoke about this morning,” his eyes darted to my window and back to mine. “You can hang out with your friends. You were cool today.”
I forced a casual shrug. “Yeah, I was tired. Didn’t see it. Thank you, though.”
“You’re welcome.”
“Can I go back to sleep now?”
Brian tilted his head, suspicion flashing briefly in his eyes before he finally nodded. “Yeah. Don’t stay up all night, Tiana.”
He turned and walked off down the hall, his footsteps fading.
The second he was gone, I let out a shaky breath I didn’t even realize I’d been holding. My hand lingered on the
