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“Not forever,” Luke said He opened a container and started poking at his pancakes “Won’t we be pretending to go off to college soon?”
Kota ”
“Luke’s right,” Dr Green said “You allon, and probably pretty quickly When it coo into details about it, so it will be the same with the fullness of whatever this relationship is”
“More secrets,” Ius For some reason, this felt different It was Kota’s mom She’d done so much for us Didn’t she deserve some honesty?
Or was telling her about this just like telling s really best left a secret?
Kota pressed his lips together a little but didn’t say anything
“Pumpkin,” Dr Green said in a ned up for We do it with the Acaderee to this now But even if you decidedif you picked one of usould always be in the Academy And we’d always have secrets Everyone does” There was a small chuckle “I could tell you some whoppers I’ve overheard from nurses”
“Not right now,” Kota said “But if there isn’t anything else we need to do today, do you think it’s safe enough for us to go somewhere?”
“If you don’t take her out, I will”
Kota sighed “It’ll look weird if Sang doesn’t coht, but also, I don’t know if she should I’d like to ss out with my mom”
“I’d have her coht, only” Dr Green paused “I’d risk it Want to co?”
“I think we’ve got enough trouble with parents right now,” I said “Not that I don’ther Dr Green was older thanabout er?
“Aw,” Dr Green said
“I’d be te, but we’ve already had soo somewhere we can lie loay”
“Then you knohere you need to go,” Dr Green said “Take her to Victor’s Just in case so close on Mr Hendricks”
“We are?” I asked
“He’s getting restless,” Dr Green said “We’ll fill you in at school on Monday”
“Woot!” Luke said “Victor’s! I love his house”
“You like the ice cream,” Kota said
“I do,” Luke said He reached out to my shoulder and held it, supportive “It’s the cure for everything”
“Doctor approved,” Dr Green said
After Dr Green was off the phone, I settled into the seat, relieved to be going so like I needed to avoid the place after that
I glanced at Kota on occasion, checking in with hi with hishim
Do we tell her? And how much did we dare to tell her?
Back to Where We’ve Been
On the way to Victor’s, we stopped shortly in a parking lot so we could eat the breakfast and double-check if the car that had followed us reappeared
We drove an odd way toward don Charleston, just in case Getting off the highway and weaving through retail areas and neighborhoods at tiet to where anted to be er
The ot a text roaned after he read it “Nathan needs ot to drive all the way back”
“He needs someone,” I said “He went back to his house after what happened”
“I can’t take you with ht now You shouldn’t be seen going to Nathan’s Not until we can figure out” He twisted his hands on the wheel “I hate this feeling”
I put a gentle, supportive hand on the back of his neck “What do you want to do?”
“I want to tell her Nathan isn’t a bad guy,” he said “But ither aboutthis”
“I’ it down in my lap “But Idon’t want her to not like me, either”
He pressed his lips together again, and then touched the corner of his glasses “I guess I should go talk to Nathan I don’t knohat to say to her ButI should ask hi Maybe I just say it’s just Nathan and me See how she takes that?”
“It’s probably what he wants to talk about,” Luke said “Soo back?”