Chapter 25Bad NewsTommyReese hummed as she sliced cucumbers on the wooden cutting board in her cheerfully tidy kitchen. “Hey, Tommy! How was school?” she asked, like always.
I grumbled, “Hailee hates me now and Finn didn’t bother to show up to school today.” More sarcastically, I added, “I’m worried he might be dead or worse married.”
“Wow. That’s a lot to take in. Slow down.” She added the cucumbers to a salad bowl full of lettuce and turned to face me. “First, what happened with Hailee?”
“It’s a long story.”
“Which is your way of saying you don’t want to say,” Reese said, beginning to figure me out after three months of living together. “And what’s up with Finn?” she asked.
“I’ll let you know when I find out.”
She grinned, “You’re just a wealth of information.” She crossed the kitc
