Chapter 16: Ordinary Tool
Jo didn’t want to tell Daisy where she was going, so she texted Declan and asked him for a ride. It was yet another sign of how much she and her best friend had grown apart. Daisy had told Jo to think of her car as half hers—probably because, at the beginning of the year, neither of them had been able to imagine a situation where that wouldn’t be true.
Declan showed up with a big grin and expectations Jo could hear as clearly as if he’d shouted them. She focused on not rolling her eyes as she got in the car.
Scoping out the empty driveway in front of her house, Declan turned to Jo faux-casually. “Your parents at work again?”
She pasted on a smile. “Uh-huh.”
It was hard to figure out why she felt so impatient with him. Declan was a fun guy, and they’d had a ho
