Chapter 11

Lizzie had known she’d fallen in love with Trent when he’d climbed up the trellis to get into her room the first time.

Her parents hadn’t known she’d started dating Trent, and Lizzie had tried her best to keep Trent from her parents’ judgmental questions and gazes. They’d known of Trent’s parents, of his father mostly, and Lizzie hadn’t wanted him to get hurt.

But she’d also known a part of her hadn’t wanted to deal with her parents judging her. And in her deepest of hearts, she’d known part of the reason she’d kept it all secret was for herself. Dave and Lisa Thornton wouldn’t have approved of her dating someone like Trent Younger. His family had no money, no connections, and with a deadbeat father and dead mother, he was particularly unsuited to be the type of boyfriend her parents would’ve chosen for her.

She hadn’t told Trent point-blank he couldn’t come over, but he wasn’t stupid. He understood why they had to have their study sessions at the library or, if Edward was