Chapter Twenty
“I heard Marcus talking this morning with Charlotte,” Eva said. “He said adopting me isn’t as easy as it was supposed to be, and there’re a lot of problems. Am I the problem, Alison? I don’t want to be a problem. Will they still want me?”
Alison pushed Eva on the swing at the playground down the end of the street from their houses. There were a few kids there, mostly older because of the time of day, getting close to dinner.
The new kid at her school, a dark-haired boy named Brady, was across the playground, hanging out by the monkey bars. He wasn’t in her classes, and he’d never tossed her under the bus like some of the other kids, pointing fingers her way in the fallout of Jackson’s death.
Yeah, she was still smarting over the fact that a grad prank could’ve come back
