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Kenley

“Your desperation is showing,” Alice says, slaer side door “At least pretend like you aren’t looking at him”

“I’aze away fro lot and the flow of students toward the old letterman’s jacket that just vanished into the front doors I reach into the backseat to grab my backpack

“Sure,” she says sarcastically “You can fool a lot of people You can even fool him, but not me, Kenley Keene”

I catch Alice’s eye over the roof of the car She ht I hate it when she calls me out for my deep-seated insecurities about Rose and Finn

Who, interestingly enough, did not walk into the school together Finn, curiously, was alone

I take a deep breath, grab o”

“I did let it go, you seem to be the one stuck in the past”

Alice and I meet at the front of the car, her hands wrapped around the straps of her purple backpack The irritation in her hazel eyes has shifted to sympathy

She removes one hand from the backpack and curls her pinky “Let’s shake on it”

“Shake on what?”

“Letting it go”

I look at her finger, ready and waiting Rose may have been one That ended with betrayal and a terrible prank three years ago And my crush on Finn? Foolish We’ve lived next door to one another for thirteen years He’s made his choice

It definitely wasn’t me

I curve ht

“Deal”

“Deal”

“No one is going tome toward the school “Not Rose Waller Not Finn Holloway Not anyone I promise you that”

I didn’t know it then, but some promises are best not kept