Chapter 17
Jude didn’t come over. And he wasn’t at school on Friday. Emma had a scathing story about him slipping on ice in the back garden and giving himself an almighty concussion, but Jude—when Anton texted him at break—told a heroic story of rescuing a cat from a shed roof. Given Jude’s wide-eyed, slightly terror-laced respect of Max, Anton was inclined to believe Emma.
With Friday lost, Anton dithered all of Saturday morning about whether to invite Jude over, still trying to find his feet with exactly how comfortable he—and Jude, really—was with it all. Jude starting to…well, trying to do stuff, had brought a lot of the anxiety back. And even if Ellen had been really nice and talked loads about it, Anton still wasn’t sure…
Well, what he would like. And if Jude would like it, too. W
