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“You feel like going out for dinner?” Shaw asked as she retook her seat and picked up her pen “Mo for myself”

Cannon glanced over at us “I’m down for whatever you tant to do”

“Vi?”

I lifted ood hatever Just let me tell my parents”

“Great Can, see if Jagger wants to go with us”

I wrote the last sentence in the rough draft and closed ain so I could text Dad By the tio

“We have to pick up Jags,” Cannon told his sister as alked out to his vehicle “You decide where we’re eating yet?”

“There’s that Mexican place Jagger likes about five ested

“Yeah, I love that place,” he agreed “Best queso I’ve ever had”

I got in the back seat of his car like always and pulled out my phone There were so many comments on Lyric’s picture that, of course, it was the first thing in my social media feed I put an eye-roll e to look at Megan or even Luca in the picture this time

It wasn’t until Cannon drove past the Thorntons’ house that I even tuned in to as going on around me Luca’s SUV had obviously just pulled into their driveway, and he stepped out of his vehicle Seeing Cannon’s car, his head snapped toward us, but he couldn’t see h the tint on the back

I turned my head to look out the oppositeuntil Cannon pulled into Jagger’s driveway and honked the horn My phone rang just as Jagger jogged toward us

Sighing, I grabbedhiot in beside me

“Hey, beautiful,” he greeted with a grin “Hope you’re hungry because I’”

“I could go for a taco,” I said as Cannon reversed When he drove past Luca’s house this ti er