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“We’ll see you later, Raven,” he says to her I was expecting her to be co with us, but she only waves with a mischievous smile I have never skipped school before, but there is so about Kai that makes me want to live a little more freely than I have been

“We will go towards the office like we are signing out for lunch, but not Okay?” I nod and follow his lead Weus

I feel like such a rebel e pull out of the parking lot “Nohat?” I question as we drive onto the highway leading out of town

“We have a few hours until we have to pick up Khloe-bug We could go to my friend Jake’s place He’s cool, you’ll like hiion We hold rehearsals in his garage That’s where we are going actually,” he decides

Chapter 10

Jake’s place turns out to be a really old farmhouse on the outskirts of town He lives in an apartion rehearses Before we get out of the car, Kai tells me a little about Jake He says that Jake’s parents were killed a few years ago in a car wreck, his senior year to be exact He cannot bring hie instead The story is really depressing

A guy, I aarette hanging frouy is covered in tattoos His ears are pierced fro braid slung over his bare shoulder, and it al I have always been jealous of men with better hair than mine

Kai and I get out of the car and they greet with a fist bump “Jake, this is Kat…Kat, this is Jake”

“Da off a piece of that?”

Kai punches him and says, “Don’t be a dickhead”

“Oh, you like her” He winks at Kai “Don’t worry, Kat, when you get tired of the boy,” he teases, and hooks his thumb over to Kai, “I will be here to show you all about a real man”

“Oh, you knohere I can find a real man Please tell me where this real man is?” I retort

“She’s got jokes I like her”

“She sings too,” Kai brags softly

“No shit” He snuffs his cigarette out on the block wall of the garage