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“I’m?”

That slow grin was back, and ifout of control Whoosh Not an entirely pleasant feeling, and in fact, I didn’t like it at all

“You’re more complicated than that”

I laughed nervously “I’m not complicated at all”

He grinned “Well, lucky for ure out if you are, in fact, a bitch or just a co a bad day”

I didn’t knohat to say to that, so I said nothing I exhaled and glanced back up at thein the world

Oh no Nope That was so not going to happen I did not need soure me out

Mostly because there was too much that had to stay hidden

Chapter Five

Trevor

It was Thursday afternoon Everly and I (I couldn’t call her Ever, just couldn’t) had finished discussing due process of law and procedural due process of law, oh, and let’s not forget about substantive due process of law We were slowly s that she’d organized, and even though my brain was pretty much fried, I kind of liked this stuff I just hoped that it stayed where it was supposed to stay Deep inside my brain for when I’d need it later

The nagging headache I’d woken up as still hanging around, but whatever I’d learned to deal with a lot more than a stupid headache in the last year, and it was totally worth the pain, just so I could be here and watch Everly

Soued ot really dark when she was concentrating and that little frown appeared between her brows? Was it the way she chewed on the end of her pencil (like nohen she was thinking?

Was it the fact that she’d punched Brett Sonads?

Or was it the fact that there was a piece of her hidden away? I’d felt it Monday night, and I felt it now It was in everything that she wasn’t saying, and everything she wasn’t saying filled the silence up with little mysterious pieces of her It was those little pieces that I wanted to explore It was those little pieces that irl I’d ever met before