I hadn’t actually considered whether Brooke would let me go to the beach with Blake until she asked me what I had been up to as we walked through the empty hallways together.
I felt like I was going to end up begging her the way Tammie had begged my mom to let her go to the mall with her friends when she was 13, and I had the feeling that Brooke was going to answer me exactly the same way that my mom had responded to Tammie.
Absolutely not, under no circumstances.
“Just working on a project,” I tried my best to make myself sound casual as if it was no big deal and I was not going to freak out if she said yes, “it’s this lame group thing for geography.”
“Lame? I thought you were enjoying that class. You seemed so enthusiastic about it when you switched.”
“I am it’s just…”
Brooke must
