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can drop me off.”
    â€œActually . . . do you think you could maybe drive Darnell home?” Evan asked, pressing his lips together and raising his eyebrows adorably.
    They all looked over at Darnell’s stooped figure as he used two hands to guide his key toward the lock. He missed again.
    â€œEvan—”
    â€œHails, you live two houses down from him,” Evan said. “And somebody’s gotta do it.”
    Hailey looked over her shoulder at the others as another plane took off and drowned out the world. “Okay, you’re right,” she said with a sigh. She walked over to Darnell and slung her arm around his broad back. “Wrong side of the car, D.”
    â€œHuh?” Darnell said. “But I’m driving Megan home.”
    â€œChange of plans. You’ve got me now,” Hailey said. “Come on.”
    Megan watched as Hailey gently led Darnell around to the passenger seat. Evan took the keys and opened the door. Together they lowered Darnell’s linebacker frame into the car. Then Hailey fished around under the seat and adjusted it so thatDarnell’s knees weren’t pressed into the dashboard. Unreal. Just when Megan thought the girl was completely evil, she went and acted like a human.
    â€œOkay, see you later,” Hailey said, giving Evan a kiss before she got behind the wheel.
    â€œDrive safe,” Evan replied, coaxing a smile out of his girlfriend.
    â€œBye, Hailey,” Megan said as Hailey started the car.
    Without another word, Hailey peeled out, leaving Megan and Evan in the dust.
    â€œNice girl,” Megan said under her breath.
    Evan looked at her sideways and turned toward his car. “Come on. Let’s go home.”
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    â€œSo, are your parents going to kill us?” Megan asked, checking her watch. One-fifteen a.m. “’Cuz my parents would definitely kill us.”
    â€œDon’t worry. It’s under control,” Evan said.
    He turned off the headlights as he turned onto the McGowans’ quiet street. Parking his car at the very end of the driveway, he cut the engine. The sound of a hundred chirping crickets filled the air. The only light in the house came from the lamp in the front living room window.
    â€œHey,” Evan whispered. “Did you have fun tonight?”
    Megan turned to look at him, her heart responding with a heavy thump. He was leaning across the center console. Leaning so close she could see the stubble coming in on his jawline.
    â€œYour friends are nice.”
    â€œI knew you would like them,” he whispered, looking intoher eyes so intently, she couldn’t look away. “Actually I knew they would like you.”
    Megan swallowed with difficulty. “You . . . you did?”
    â€œWell, what’s not to like?” Evan said with a smile.
    Oh God, he was going to kiss her. He was going to kiss her right there in the driveway. And she so, so wanted him to. She wanted him to so much she could feel it in every last molecule of her body.
    But he has a girlfriend, Megan, she told herself. Hailey might be a bitch, but she was a girl and a teammate and, although the opportunity had never presented itself before, Megan was not the type of person who stole other people’s boyfriends, no matter how hateful those people were.
    â€œOkay, just close . . .”
    Megan couldn’t move.
    â€œ. . . your door very quietly,” Evan whispered.
    He turned and got out of the car. Megan deflated.
    She slipped out of the car and closed the door. Noiselessly she followed Evan up the driveway and along the side of the house. Aside from the crickets, all Megan could hear was the sound of her own breathing. Every other second she expected a window to open above them or a light to flick on, but everything was still. Evan really seemed to know what he was doing.
    He reached the back door and opened the screen door halfway,