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"It shouldn’t be You’re so good, Erin You’re justgood You don’t deserve the way they treat you, and I don’t even knohy they do it"

"I don’t know, either One day, they just stopped talking to er"

"That’s so weird I don’t get it"

The Chevy pulled into ear into park

I leaned back and stretched "Just oneBreak After that we have five weeks before graduation None of this willto prohed once It was shrill, and it even surprised o withwith Alder"

"I haven’t asked her, yet Everyone just assuether Even her"

"I" I shookoverwhelmed "I don’t have a dress I wouldn’t even knohere to look And I don’t have the money, anyway"

"Okay Don’t freak out Just think about it If you want to go, we’ll figure so me out I’m not sure how to feel about all of this"

Weston lifted ing it, rerass below, then pulled his jacket fro on to it for me"

I tossed it into his truck "I have a jacket Thank you"

He soing to forget about you overnight?" I teased, trying to hide ht

He pointed to his chest "This? No way!"

Weston waved to ling It was dark and quiet I crept into my rooht into bed I was too tired to take a shower or even brush my teeth I just wanted to lie between the sheets and replay what Weston said about how I ain in my head It was like a drea was going to cos like this didn’t happen to me

I reached over and set my alarainstBreak, and the beginning of a week-long vacation fros with Weston, doing whatever anted He was beco my best friend, and not just because he was my only friend at school We actually had a lot in common, from music to art to a mutual love for the first three episodes of Star Wars

I felt row heavy, and I drifted off, with his words about PJs and war over in my mind, narrated by his s, I stepped out of my home to see a white SUV parallel parked next to the curb Mrs Pyles rolled down theand waved

"I told you I would be here!" she called, a big grin on her face

I looked up The clouds were gray, the sidewalk and grass et, but the raining had stopped "I think it’s okay to walk"