Stephanie lay in her bed staring at the glow of the clock projecting the time on the ceiling. She"d been here almost two hours and hadn"t had a wink of sleep. Telling her parents why a police car had followed her into the yard hadn"t been fun, but they"d taken it better than she"d expected. Especially after she"d told them Noah had been with her the whole time and was planning to come by tomorrow too.
It made her feel a little less alone.
She thought back to what he"d said when he brought her home. About being friends. She really could use a friend to get through this. She didn"t have many here anymore. Most of her school mates had left to go away to different schools and the few that had stayed behind had gotten married, some even had a couple kids already.
At school she had a few acqu
