Chapter 38

Her mom shouted whatever it was again.

“What?” Riva called back. She opened her bedroom door and ran down the stairs. Daisy was picking her up any minute now, and she’d been ready forever, but she couldn’t help scrutinizing herself yet again in the mirror at the bottom of the staircase.

Right away, she started questioning her motives for doing that, as if she hadn’t been around all the arguments a dozen times in the last fifteen minutes. This situation was making her lose her mind.

“I’m happy you’ve finally made a friend,” her mom said. “Where are you two going tonight?”

“I thought we’d hit the video arcade at the mall, like I used to do with Casey.”

Her mom appeared in the doorway to the kitchen, wearing a black apron over the dress she’d worn to work at the museum. “You know Daisy’s not Casey, right?”

“I know, Mom.” Believe me.Riva had never had confusing feelings for Casey. She’d never spent time thinking about what it would be like to kiss her.