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Quietly I ask, “Hoould you know?”

Josh gives me an Oh, come on look “Because I know you”

“Not as well as you think”

We’re quiet the rest of the way

It won’t be that big of a deal Peter will stop bydeal, so he had to go five ht for two friggin’ hours

When we get to school, Josh heads for the senior hall and I go straight to the junior hall I keep sneaking peeks down the hallway at Peter’s locker, but he doesn’t arrive I wait at s, and he still doesn’t coainstattendance, when I look up and see Peter standing in the doorway glaring at ulp and quickly look down at my notebook and pretend like I didn’t see him But then he hisses my name, and I know I have to talk to hio the bathroorumbles, but he waves me on

I hurry out to the hallway and pull Peter away from the door so Mr Schuller can’t see

“Where were you this ?” Peter demands

I cross my arms and try to stand tall It’s hard, because I’m so short and he really is tall “You’re one to talk”

Peter huffs, “At least I texted you! I’ve called you like seventeen times Why is your phone off?”

“You knoe’re not allowed to have our phones on at school!”

He huffs, “Lara Jean, I waited in front of your house for twenty et to school? Sanderson?”

“Yes”

Peter exhales “Listen, if you were pissed I couldn’t coht, you should’ve just called and said so instead of the shit you pulled this ”

In a small voice I say, “Well, what about that shit you pulled last night?”

A ss at the corners of hisout of your nore that “Sowhere were you? Were you with Genevieve?” I don’t ask what I really want to knohich is, Did you guys get back together?

He hesitates and then he says, “She needed me”

I can’t even look at him Why is he such a dummy? Why does she have such a hold on hiether? Is it the sex? I don’t understand It’s disappointing, how little self-control boys have “Peter, if you’re just going to go running every time she beckons, I don’t see a point to any of this”

“Covey, come on! I said I was sorry Don’t be pissed”

“You never said you were sorry,” I say “When did you say you were sorry?”

Chastened, he says, “Sorry”

“I don’t want you to go to Genevieve’s anymore How do you think that makes me look to her?”