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whispered to me. “I’m sure it looks that way, but growing up with parents like ours has made us crave stability, which is something you won’t ever have if you’ve got a revolving bedroom door.” I never would have expected that a guy who could have any girl he wanted didn’t take advantage of it. It made me even more curious about him.
    “What’s your story?” I asked softly. Kasey brushed a strand of hair away from my face and smiled at me. Derrick who ? It was the first time since he’d dumped me that I felt I would be better off without him.
    “You mean how did I wind up entangled with these misfits?”
    “No—I,” I stuttered, exiting the spell I’d been under while gazing into Kasey’s eyes. I looked at everyone staring back at me, hoping they didn’t think I thought of them as misfits.
    “Kasey’s hidden talent—twisting a person’s words,” Hazel laughed.
    “I didn’t twist anything. We know what we are,” Kasey said. “And it won’t be long before Ryen figures it out, too.” He looked at me, almost dismally. “We each have our demons,” he said, which seemed to sober everyone’s mood.
    “Who doesn’t, asshole?” Chase cracked.
    “I bet what she figures out is that she’s just as screwed up as the rest of us,” Luke offered. “Why the hell else would she be here?” I wanted to tell him I was there because I’d been invited, but thought better of it. I knew that wasn’t what he meant.
    “Ignore him. Again ,” Kasey said, louder that time. “He’s just mad that my father is screwing his sister.”
    Luke started pushing Tosh off of him, coming after Kasey. Tosh fumbled her way to Luke, yelling for him to stop. She put her hands on his cheeks and forced him to look at her. “Calm down,” she asked gently.
    “Your dad’s gonna get his,” Luke threatened, pointing at Kasey.
    “I imagine he already has. There’s no telling what that trampy sister of yours has given him. Hopefully nothing that a little penicillin can’t kill.”
    “I’m gonna bust your ass, Grayson, if you don’t shut the hell up about my sister.”
    “Would the two of you stop whining?” Chase said, exasperated. “It’s a fact—a fact that’s not gonna change, even if the two of you beat the shit out of each other over it. Luke, your sister’s just as slutty as Kasey’s dad, and everyone knows it. Just fucking drop it.”
    I’d been taught that there were certain things you shouldn’t tell people. What happened in your house was your business and not meant for the public. A rule my mother had recently decided no longer applied to her because she felt she had a right to be angry and that the rest of the world deserved to know why.
    Kasey looked at me, the gold in his chestnut eyes intense, his jaw rigid. “You still wanna know my story?” Somehow, the question felt rhetorical. It almost made me feel like he was trying to warn me what I’d be in for if I stuck around.
    The car rolled to a slow stop. “Where are we?” Hazel asked, looking around, panicked. “Oh, uh-uh. No. No way,” she complained. “T. What the hell?”
    “It wasn’t me,” Tosh said, wide-eyed.
    Hazel looked at Chase. “Yeah, right,” he laughed.
    “It was me,” Kasey spoke up.
    “Why would you—you know how I feel about him being around,” she said, shaking her head and crossing her arms hard across her chest.
    “He called earlier. I told him what we were doing. He wanted to come. It’s been a while…”
    Hazel mumbled under her breath as Frederick opened the car door. A blond couple holding hands stepped inside and sat down next to Kasey and me.
    “Grayson,” the guy said, and slapped hands with Kasey. “Been too long, man.”
    “Got that right.”
    The guy glanced at me and Kasey introduced us. “This is Ryen. Ryen, meet Asher and Emmy.” As Asher and I were saying hello, Emmy interrupted, “You didn’t tell me she’d be here,” she said to Asher, glaring at Hazel.
    “You can always get the