TAYLOR
River lying to her father about me did not sit right, and I don't know why I wanted to get to the bottom of the reason for her lies.
"Did your father forbid you from staying in the same room with a boy?" I ask, and she looks up at me with the corner of her eye and shakes her head.
"We never spoke about it, but I assume it is something he wouldn't want me to do," she replies, and I tilt my head. I don't want to be caught up in any kind of mess in the future, so I am going to get to the bottom of this; at least that is what I tell myself.
"So you've actually never had such a conversation with him before, so you don't know what his reaction would be, right?" I ask, and she looks fed up with me but answers me anyway.
"Yes, Taylor, is that all?"
"No, River, it isn't," I say, and sh
