CHAPTER 34
CONNOR MADE A quick phone call and came back smiling.
“I’ve fixed it,” he said. “But you gotta promise you won’t be mad at Jenny. She told me loads of times to tell you about my past, but I didn’t know how to.”
All that paled into insignificance in light of recent events. Besides, I remembered my ramblings while I was stuck in the house of horrors—I had to look to the future. “I won’t be mad at her, I promise. Life’s too short. I know that now.”
I felt a bit guilty about running off, but my friends wouldn’t hear of it. Demi and Jaz came to visit every day, and before I left, they piled me high with gifts to take on my trip. Make-up from Demi, chocolate from Jaz. She drooled as she handed the box over.
“How’s the diet going?”
She sighed. “Painfully.”
I pulled them into a g
