Chapter Twelve
She needed to talk to someone, anyone. She was bursting with excitement that had her a foot off the ground and feeling lighter than a feather after Emmett dropped her off in front of her parents’ house, where she now stared at his taillights as he drove away.
She saw the lights were on at Chris and Ivy’s, heard the screen door open behind her, and turned to see her mom there, pulling on a sweater and shivering.
“Oh, it’s getting chilly,” Susan said. “You missed dinner and didn’t call.” There it was, the look and the tone as if she’d done something else to screw up.
Her smile fled, and she felt the familiar resentment to everyone here. It wasn’t a feeling she wanted to have anymore. Didn’t they get that? “Sorry, I had dinner in Kaycee with Emmett.”
Her mom seemed surpris
