CHAPTER 12
KIM
After I helped Dani and Rose home, and I had lunch at their place, I feel like Dani is keeping me at a distance. I feel like she’s keeping me away, not getting close at all, like nothing ever happened between us. Rose stayed at home for two days after she fell ill and after she came back to school, Dani had changed. We’ve barely spoken, apart from the bare necessities, but nothing more. A friendly greeting, an update on her progress, that was all, so different from before. It’s been two weeks since the party at Dani’s place, two weeks since the evening that we crossed the line between parent and teacher and into something else. Two weeks.
At first, Dani’s distance made sense, it made sense that she’d stay away a little, trying to sort through things herself and she looked
