Chapter 15
Monday afternoon, Jayden took the time to ask in the middle of a lesson. Want to come over after school?
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He dawdled long enough in the dance studio, talking to Charley before her club started, and used enough of the back corridors to visit his locker and the toilets to check his hair, that by the time he moved through reception and out to the gate, the usual suspects had gotten bored and left, and a familiar blazer was just visible in the trees. Darren had been away for a whole week—Mr. Weber had taken the orchestra on a trip to Vienna, apparently—and Jayden hadn’t seen him since Darren had reeled him in by the hand after Saturday night’s bowling and kissed him like Jayden had the only oxygen left on the entire planet. It had taken until Wednesday to start thinking again.
