‘Hey, Jacob, what’s up with you and Georgie?’ Nadia nudged the young man sitting next to her in the back seat of Kyle’s car.
‘Nothing much.’
Melissa pinched Nadia’s arm to warn her to stop.
‘That’s not what Georgie says,’ responded Nadia. ‘Ask Melissa.’
On this occasion Jacob decided to humour her. He leaned forward and gave Melissa a quizzical look.
Melissa shook her head, embarrassed. ‘I don’t know anything.’
She was disappointed to find out Kyle had offered Jacob a ride back to Redcliffe with them. The back seat was already tight enough with a bag squeezed down against her feet. Jacob’s tall frame filled the left side, made worse by his need to sit with his legs spread wide. Nadia’s own long legs were tucked up and squashed against the window winder.
‘Georgie should know what to
