Chapter 102 The Smile I Didn't Mean
Jake POV
My thumb hovers over Rachel's message, and before Penny can stop me, I hit call.
It rings once. Twice. Then a robotic voice tells me the number is no longer in service.
"What?" I hit redial. Same message. "That's impossible. She just texted me. People don't just disappear thirty second...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Note
2. Chapter 2 Nobody
3. Chapter 3 Two Different Houses
4. Chapter 4 The Crack in the Wall
5. Chapter 5 Five Raisins
6. Chapter 6 The Warm Thing She Won't Name
7. Chapter 7 The Problem With Tea
8. Chapter 8 One More Year Is A Lie
9. Chapter 9 The Boy Who Watched
10. Chapter 10 The Dangerous Thing About Tuesday
11. Chapter 11 Words That Came Out Sideways
12. Chapter 12 The Problem With Caring
13. Chapter 13 What A B Plus Actually Means
14. Chapter 14 The Lie She Keeps Telling
15. Chapter 15 The Morning That Changes Everything
16. Chapter 16 What Rumors Do In The Dark
17. Chapter 17 The Smile That Means Danger
18. Chapter 18 What Purple Feels Like
19. Chapter 19 Everything She Hides
20. Chapter 20 What He Kept
21. Chapter 21 The Gravity of Small Things
22. Chapter 22 Teeth
23. Chapter 23 What He Doesn't Have a Name For Yet
24. Chapter 24 The Cost of Staying
25. Chapter 25 The Weight of a Wrong Door
26. Chapter 26 Receipts
27. Chapter 27 Everything to Lose
28. Chapter 28 What the Storm Keeps
29. Chapter 29 The Things We Carry Alone
30. Chapter 30 The Weight of I Know
31. Chapter 31 Aware
32. Chapter 32 Fifty Views and Climbing
33. Chapter 33 The Loudest Room
34. Chapter 34 Everything They Said
35. Chapter 35 The Inventory
36. Chapter 36 One Thousand and Four
37. Chapter 37 Stand
38. Chapter 38 Two Hundred Things Wrong
39. Chapter 39 Everything That Fits
40. Chapter 40 All Night If That's What It Takes
41. Chapter 41 Chosen
42. Chapter 42 Four Days
43. Chapter 43 Her Own Name
44. Chapter 44 I Watch You
45. Chapter 45 Fighting
46. Chapter 46 Friday Night
47. Chapter 47 What the Jersey Means
48. Chapter 48 All of It
49. Chapter 49 Eleven-Thirty on a Tuesday
50. Chapter 50 What He Was Missing
51. Chapter 51 Actually Good
52. Chapter 52 Since September
53. Chapter 53 The Full Picture
54. Chapter 54 I Did It
55. Chapter 55 The Middle Seat
56. Chapter 56 One Word
57. Chapter 57 What Mrs. Cole Knows
58. Chapter 58 The Name
59. Chapter 59 What Jake Isn't Saying
60. Chapter 60 The Name 2
61. Chapter 61 Telling Him
62. Chapter 62 His Father's Face
63. Chapter 63 The Board Hearing
64. Chapter 64 Halftime
65. Chapter 65 The Article
66. Chapter 66 The Scout Call
67. Chapter 67 Diana Cruz Reads the Article
68. Chapter 68 Mrs. Cruz in the Kitchen
69. Chapter 69 What He Said
70. Chapter 70 Kyle
71. Chapter 71 Brianna
72. Chapter 72 His Dad Stays Home
73. Chapter 73 Monday at School
74. Chapter 74 Practice
75. Chapter 75 Simone's Story
76. Chapter 76 Lily's Question
77. Chapter 77 Same School
78. Chapter 78 When She Gets Back
79. Chapter 79 State Prep
80. Chapter 80 His Dad's Proposal
81. Chapter 81 The Photograph
82. Chapter 82 Not My Business
83. Chapter 83 Aunt Nina Early
84. Chapter 84 The Truth Table
85. Chapter 85 What Dad Knew
86. Chapter 86 Taking Sides
87. Chapter 87 The Agency Letter
88. Chapter 88 Brianna Returns
89. Chapter 89 Two Weeks
90. Chapter 90 The New Guy
91. Chapter 91 Lily's Door
92. Chapter 92 Behind Dad's Back
93. Chapter 93 Maren Ellis
94. Chapter 94 The Unsent Message
95. Chapter 95 Diana's News
96. Chapter 96 Something's Off
97. Chapter 97 Brianna's Game
98. Chapter 98 Send
99. Chapter 99 Pride and Money
100. Chapter 100 Jake's Nightmare Begins
101. Chapter 101 The Voice in the Dark
102. Chapter 102 The Smile I Didn't Mean
103. Chapter 103 The Strong One
104. Chapter 104 Not Okay
105. Chapter 105 What I Promised Her
106. Chapter 106 Asking Her to Stay
107. Chapter 107 The Fun Aunt
108. Chapter 108 Something He Should Have Told Me
109. Chapter 109 My Name in Someone Else's Story
110. Chapter 110 The First Person I Let See Me Break
111. Chapter 111 Paper Trail
112. Chapter 112 Time I Don't Know How to Give
113. Chapter 113 What My Mother Never Told Me
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