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corners. I did the same to him and laughed so hard that tears streamed down my cheeks by the time I stumbled off the ride.
    I ignored my phone as it vibrated while we went on a few more rides. Josh had to pair up with me every time. I wasn’t about to cause issues with The Dark One so I dealt with it. Besides, Josh was a lot of fun. However, Noah wasn’t smiling as much. Once we exited another ride, he pushed Kelly’s hands off his arm.
    “Kelly, you need to back off.” He stormed off from the group. She gave me a dirty look before she ran after Noah. The rest of us were uncomfortably silent.
    “I probably have to go. My mom wants me back.” I backed up a few steps.
    Everyone said goodbye to me as I waved. When Noah heard, he left Kelly standing where she was. I felt terrible. How did I suddenly become the source of the drama with their group? I waved at him and turned to go.
    “Wait.” Noah caught up to me. “That didn’t go at all like I planned. I’m sorry.”
    “It’s not your fault. I have to go, I really do. My mom keeps texting me and I might be in trouble. Josh is a lot of fun by the way.”
    “Oh.” Noah stopped in his tracks.
    “I’m sorry that I caused problems with you and Kelly.” I kicked at the ground. “I wouldn’t have come.”
    “No,” Noah said in disbelief. “It’s Kelly that’s causing the problems. I invited you and I wanted to be the one to … ” He clamped his jaw shut. His face may have reddened. With his sun-darkened skin, it was hard to tell. “Let me put it this way, when I ran into you yesterday, I was running from
her
. We’ve been part of the same club for forever and all of a sudden she’s all over me. I don’t like her in that way. Being nice about it isn’t getting me anywhere and it complicates everything when we’re all together.” Noah sighed.
    My phone buzzed again. “That makes sense. I’m sorry, I still have to go.” I reluctantly took a few steps away. Now he lets me know what he really wanted when my fun times at the fair were about to be over forever. The story of my life. So close and yet so far. So much for pushing it with Mom.
    “See you tomorrow morning? I’ll let you ride my horse.”
    I froze and my body tensed all over before I slowly turned to face him. “Okay, I have to admit something. I’m really scared of horses.”
    “What?” He covered his mouth when he started to laugh. “Oh, that wasn’t nice. I’m sorry. I’m glad you told me. If you still come, I’ll show you that Ezra is the gentlest horse ever. I’ll help you see there’s nothing to be afraid of.”
    If it had been anyone else, even Josh, I would have said no. However, Noah was so sincere, and the curls, the blue eyes, and the eyebrows that lifted, wrinkling his forehead kind of cute-like while he waited for my answer. I couldn’t believe it. I actually nodded.
    “Good. You bring your sister and I’ll make sure Kelly stays away.”
    “Deal.” I ran for the Caravan hoping Mom wasn’t about to ground me for the rest of my life for ignoring her for so long. However, if I kept Cessie out of Mom’s hair the next morning, she might allow us to go.

4
    I was right. I got into a heap of trouble for not waiting for permission to go. The next day I had to take Cessie with me to go on the rides. In the meantime, my punishment was I had to stay home the rest of the night because Mom still had ‘things’ to take care of. More than likely, Mom was on the hunt for her own hot local guy.
    Cessie wouldn’t talk to me the rest of the night. However, she
never
stopped talking to Peppy and Millie, going on and on about what an awful sister she had. I climbed up the ladder to our bed in the turret bedroom. I crawled through the large hinged window onto the landing in between the turrets and brought some pillows out with me. My phone vibrated. I didn’t want to look it at first. Mom might be giving me another chore list. Next to kid’s books, chore lists were her second