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like, the whole night.”
    “Tell me about it,” he said, rolling his eyes.
    I chose not to ponder what part he’d been thinking about the whole night. He actually did look kind of tired. His skin was waxy and his eyes were a little bloodshot. But it didn’t matter. He was the hottest thing I’d ever seen. Those junior girls who’d been watching us were probably plotting my assassination right now. Everyone wanted Jake Graydon. Even Chloe Appleby, apparently. That was just the way it worked aroundhere. And I couldn’t exactly blame them. But he was my boyfriend, and he was going to stay that way.
    “And I realized I couldn’t be a hypocrite,” I said.
    His brow knit, confused. “What do you mean?”
    I looked away and lifted a shoulder. A school bus pulled up at the end of the long line of cars along the drive. The door opened with a hiss, spewing forth laughing sophomores and timid-looking freshmen.
    “I mean, I did … stuff with Cooper this summer too,” I said, fiddling with my own fingertips. His jaw clenched, but he said nothing. This sort of icky triumphant feeling bubbled up inside of me, which made me feel like a total jerk. But is it that wrong that I thought he deserved to feel jealous too, on some level? Just this once? “You were right. We weren’t together. So unless you’re gonna hate me for Cooper, I can’t hate you for Chloe.”
    Jake nodded, looking less than pleased. I bet he was wondering what “stuff” I’d done with Cooper. Good. Let him wonder.
    “I know this is gonna be complicated. Like, beyond complicated,” I said. “But I love you. And I’m not going anywhere.”
    Jake blew out a sigh. “Thank God ,” he said dramatically, tipping his head back and leaning back against the brick wall. “I swear I thought I was going to have to kidnap you and make you run away with me or something. I had us living in a hut on the beach in Mexico by next weekend.”
    I laughed and grabbed both his hands, lacing our fingers together. “Is that what you were up all night thinking about? Your kidnapping plot?”
    “Yeah. Why? What did you think I was thinking about?” he asked innocently.
    The warning bell rang and a couple of kids shrieked as they ran for the sophomore/freshman entrance. Jake and I exchanged a look of dread as the last reverberations died away. I didn’t want to go in there. I didn’t want to deal.
    “How were we going to get to this beach exactly?” I asked.
    He smirked and slung his arm over my shoulders. “I was thinking private jet. If you’re gonna kidnap someone, I figure you gotta go big.”
    As we made our way back around to the front of the building, our steps got slower and slower. But no matter how hard we tried, eventually we arrived. Chloe and Faith were just getting up from their bench and walking inside.
    “Hey, guys,” Chloe said, glancing at me uncertainly.
    They were the first words Chloe had spoken to me since telling me off at Shannen’s birthday party last year, after she found out I’d kissed Hammond once when we were freshmen. I guess she realized it wouldn’t make sense to stay mad at me for kissing her man three years ago when she’d gone all the way and back with mine, like, last month. I thought about averting my eyes, walking away, giving her the cold shoulder, but I couldn’t bring myself to do it. As much as it killed just to be near her, I’d never been good at being mean. It wasn’t in my DNA, even though I sometimes wished it was. Just a little.
    “Hi.” I stared at Chloe’s back as we followed her inside, trying to sort through how I felt. Who was she in this scenario? An unlucky girl who got pregnant by mistake, or the evil slut who went after my man? Was it possible to be both?
    “I can not believe you guys skipped Connor’s last night. Even Hammond and Shannen didn’t show,” Faith said, grabbing my arm. Her straight blond hair shone in the sun and she tuggeddown on the skirt of her plaid dress, which she’d