Chapter 15

Jack

Despite the fact that for a whole month I have been inundated with assignments, notes and books, Aiden always had a place in my thoughts. If I let myself look away for a second, here he was. I could think about his eyes for half an hour.

I call Laura (I usually don't call home often) and in between I wonder how Brent and Aiden are doing. Her voice instantly changes to a sly one.

“Are you still on it, Romeo?”

I would have strangled her over the phone, I swear. For being right.

“They left,” she says, without waiting for my answer.

“What?” I even sit up in bed, I feel uneasy.

“Well, yes, they were not going to stay with us anyway. Brent is a student.”

I totally forgot about it. And I never asked about his school.

“And where did they go?”

“How do I know?”

Judging by my anxiety, I was hoping for something else. As long as I knew that they were on the farm, and I could come back at any time, to see Aiden, to talk to him, I was rather calm. And they just left.