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Author: Zoë Grace
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♧♧JAKE’S POV♧♧

She was lying to me.

I could see it in her hands. In her mouth. In the way her fingers played with the edge of the blanket like she needed something to hold onto—anything but me.

Summer never lied to me. Not when she broke her wrist falling off a tree in fifth grade. Not even when she kissed Dean behind the gym sophomore year and ran to my house crying about it.

She always came clean. Until now.

Since I got here, everything about her had been twitchy. Like someone trying to scrub blood off a white shirt and hoping no one notices the stain.

She laughed when I teased her. She smiled when Agnes talked. But her eyes weren’t laughing. Her shoulders weren’t relaxed. Her breath wasn’t steady.

I knew her. I’ve always known her. Which is why something was wrong. And boy, was I glad when Keith “intentionally” locked the door earlier. He was messy, sure—but not paranoid. But today, he got paranoid because of a stupid bet he lost.

So yeah, I climbed the tree and peered throu
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This just got crazy. I thought Jake was sweet. What
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