Chapter 2
He shook his head. “Your dad’ll kill me if I don’t finish this today. I was supposed to do it yesterday but I went to town and got, uh, distracted.”
Tamera hit him again and walked away without another word, bidding Darlene to follow her. Darlene had to jog to keep up.
“What was that all about?” she asked the other girl.
Tamera turned her face and grinned at Darlene. “Oh, we’re always like that.”
“Did you sleep with him?”
Tamera laughed. “I wouldn’t sleep with that creep in a million years.”
“Then why—”
“We just like to kid around with each other. We kiss and flirt. It’s no big deal.”
Sometimes it surprised Darlene how cavalier Tamera was with her affections, how open she was to casual intimacy. The thought made Darlene uneasy. This is why Tamera always called her a pru
