CHAPTER 99

"How is school going?" Brody asks me, pulling himself onto the sofa and settling back against the cushions. I take a seat opposite him, wary of the fact that I have to put space between us. For my own state of mind, I don't think I'm fully ready yet to be close to him all the time. "It's going good, I'm a little nervous about exams but I've been studying all the time." I explain, fiddling with a loose string on my pyjama shorts. I glance up at Brody from under my lashes to find his eyes set...