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now,” Henry said.
    “What’s that supposed to mean?” I couldn’t keep the hurt out of my voice.
    “It just means that since you’ve been back, all we talk about is trying to figure out why you’re here and when you should tell people.”
    I gulped. Henry was right. I don’t think I’d asked him one thing about what had happened in his life for the past year. “I’m sorry.” I seem to be apologizing a lot these days.
    “Do I look upset?” Henry asked. “Don’t worry about it. I’d probably be the same way. I didn’t tell you that to make you feel bad. I told you because you looked like you’d gotten the shock of your life t o hear that I’m trying out for the basketball team next year.”
    Henry stood up. “I’m going to get a shower,” he said, walking to the bathroom. “Oh, and I’m playing again with Tad and the guys tomorrow, same time.”
    At least I won’t have to worry about getting him out of the house now. 
    I vowed to myself to be a better friend. I had to stop being so self-obsessed and realize that other people had lives too.
    Henry playing basketball , I mused. But really if I stopped to think about it, it wasn’t that ridiculous of a notion. He was taller than I’d remembered and obviously had been working out.
    It would be fun to sit in the gym bleachers, cheering him on. I never thought that I’d miss school.
    I had always found studying to be such a drag; even though I made good grades, it was tedious as hell. But now I found myself missing everything about school, from the steel gray walls to the mystery meat in the cafeteria.
    I felt a pang. I w as never going to experience that first bite of the mystery meat again. Laughing with my friends as we tried to guess what the mush was on our plates. Obsessing over how many calories in the huge chocolate chip cookies they always stuck on the lunch trays.
    I was going to have to make some tough decisions, and soon. I had to get back to school next year. Maybe Henry was right; if he tutored me all summer, I might be able to catch up and start back with my classmates for senior year. And weighing most heavily on my mind was the fact that I needed to tell my parents about my existence. But how? Maybe Henry can help me figure that part out. Oh my god! I’m doing it again. Making it all about me.
    I sighed a nd turned back over on the bed. Tomorrow I’d be a better friend. Today I wanted to wallow in my misery.

Chapter 10
    Deciding to put both Lucas and Henry out of my mind, I spent the next few days closely watching David Matthews. Well, as closely as possible for someone who was supposed to be dead.
    When he was gone during the day, I snuck into his office and checked his calendar to see if he had updated it with any new appointments.
    You would think a top-notch criminal defense lawyer would have had more sense than to leave his password written down on a small piece of paper taped to the underside of his desk. It had taken me all of five minutes to locate it.
    So far, my sleuthing hadn’t yielded anything of interest. Everything on his calendar – and I had checked it weeks into the future – looked like it was a legitimate appointment. But then again, I doubt he had recorded that day at the hotel as “Meeting with my mistress.”
    And David and Valerie seemed as solid as ever. They ate dinner together with Henry every night; I guess they had a rule that no matter what hours they had to work, it wouldn’t interfere with ‘family’ time.
    It just didn’t add up. Sure, I could totally understand them getting older and growing apart. Didn’t that happen with almost everyone? Especially after you added a kid to the mix. Even I, in spite of being a total sucker for the sappy romantic comedy, understood that after the happily ever after fairy book ending, there were bills, kids, and a shit load of responsibility. Of course I wanted to believe that the endless nights of passionate lovemaking and wining and dining would go on