CHAPTER TWELVE
ArrestLeilah trudged home from the bus stop with her school bag slung across her body. Vaughan accompanied her. They maintained an awkward silence although he could have said nothing to make her feel worse. Her house key hung from a string around her neck and Leilah pulled her school shirt loose to retrieve it from between her breasts. The hot sun and their walk home heated it up and made her sweat. She watched Vaughan’s pupils dilate as he saw the swollen mounds of flesh in the second that the key pulled free. She’d outgrown the b*a Mari bought last year and hadn’t plucked up the courage to ask for another. It would require admitting the one they chose together just months before had gone missing in the laundry. Leilah sensed Mari would assume she didn’t like it and feel
