Meet the Boyfriend

Clara

I looked at them. They looked at me.

Madeline’s eyes flicked from me to the car parked behind me. Her strawberry ice cream slipped from her hand and splattered on the pavement.

She opened her mouth, God only knew what was about to come out, when a sudden knock rattled Darius’s window.

I turned, startled, and nearly choked on my own gasp.

Maisie was standing right there beside Darius’s door,