Chapter 28: Blast from the past

The voice was familiar, and not in a completely pleasant way. I couldn’t place it right away, and with Joss leaning on me, tangled around me, I was only able to turn my head at first.

“Cara?” Shock was not strong enough a word for how I was feeling. What the hell was she doing here?

“Yes...” She glanced uncertainly at Jocelyn, who was struggling to slide back onto her own stool.

“Um, hi!” I tried to put enthusiasm in my voice while my head spun. Okay, Cara was a classmate from King who had left in the fall of our senior year. We’d been friends, sort of, and we’d toyed with dating before her father tried to kill Tasmyn and I had to erase her whole family’s memories. But to anyone who might be watching us, it would make sense for me to be surprised to see her here. I decided to play that angle and hope everything else fell into place.