Chapter 40 Across the Room
POV: Lena
My hand is literally on my bedroom doorknob, turning it the wrong way, back toward my bed instead of out into the hallway, when Priya grabs my wrist and yanks me forward like she's rescuing me from a burning building.
"Oh, no you don't."
"I just need five more minutes."
"You've needed ...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Wrong House, Wrong Life
2. Chapter 2 The Boy Who Does Not Knock
3. Chapter 3 The Boy Who Is Just Fine
4. Chapter 4 The Girl Who Knows Nobody
5. Chapter 5 The Boy Who Said Don't
6. Chapter 6 The Boy Who Went Quiet
7. Chapter 7 The Screenshot
8. Chapter 8 The Lie Her Mother Told
9. Chapter 9 Too Big for Texting
10. Chapter 10 The Door That Closed
11. Chapter 11 The Reunion Photo
12. Chapter 12 The Box in Storage
13. Chapter 13 Three Days Gone
14. Chapter 14 The Silent Phone
15. Chapter 15 The Photo on the Counter
16. Chapter 16 What Neither of Them Says
17. Chapter 17 The Misspelled Name
18. Chapter 18 Not Calloway
19. Chapter 19 Rochelle's Almost
20. Chapter 20 The Hallway
21. Chapter 21 What He Didn't Say
22. Chapter 22 Stepbrother Energy
23. Chapter 23 The Word Through the Door
24. Chapter 24 Too Fast
25. Chapter 25 What He Decided Alone
26. Chapter 26 Kitchen Rules
27. Chapter 27 Marcus Asks
28. Chapter 28 Priya Asks Too
29. Chapter 29 The Voicemail
30. Chapter 30 The Silence She Let Him Keep
31. Chapter 31 Checking Her Light
32. Chapter 32 The First Fight
33. Chapter 33 What Rochelle Started
34. Chapter 34 The Rumor Reaches Her
35. Chapter 35 The Truce
36. Chapter 36 The Party Announcement
37. Chapter 37 A Reason to Go
38. Chapter 38 Truce Number Two
39. Chapter 39 Rochelle's Plan
40. Chapter 40 Across the Room
41. Chapter 41 The Back Steps
42. Chapter 42 Something Neither Can Undo
43. Chapter 43 What Happened on the Steps
44. Chapter 44 The Driveway
45. Chapter 45 The Caption
46. Chapter 46 What the Hallway Says
47. Chapter 47 Going Cold
48. Chapter 48 Stranger in the Hallway
49. Chapter 49 The Weight He's Carrying Alone
50. Chapter 50 What She Overheard
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