Chapter 26
Breakfast was a mixture of exhausted and awkward. Ella chattered away obliviously to the table at large, but Jonathon was doing little more than poking at his food, wounded by Jayden’s stony silence yesterday, and Leah had refused to sit at their table at all after hearing the rumours and seeing the dark faces, retreating across the hall to join her hockey player friends, and giving him a sour look as she did.
Jayden felt exhausted, simply put. Yesterday’s stress hadn’t abated in the slightest, and he had slept badly, worried about Jonathon and essays and Darren. At least Darren hadn’t called him back, but still. He felt run down and tired and he still had three essays to do today, and why did Ella have to talk all the time? And he wanted to tell her—and Jonathon, really, but
