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then shut the door. He headed for the kitchen on auto-pilot. He might as well see if there was any cobbler left. Though it was doubtful. His dad loved cobbler.
    ‘I don’t know what it is about that girl,’ he heard his mother saying, just as he was about to step inside the room. ‘Even though I’m sure she’s very nice, there’s just something about her that makes me uneasy.’
    ‘Overprotective much, Mom?’ Dani teased.
    Mrs Freeman laughed. ‘I expect I am. That’s what happens when you love your kids.’
    If she knew the truth about Sienna, she’d be acting just the way Sienna’s parents are
, Jason realized.
She’d build a dungeon in the basement, or whatever it took, to keep us apart. What are we going to do?
he asked himself.
What the hell are we going to do?
    Suddenly, he couldn’t stand still. Every nerve and muscle in his body was begging for release. He didn’t bother to change. He was already wearing his sneakers – that was good enough. ‘I’m going out for a run,’ he announced, and was out the front door before either of his parents had time to answer.
    As soon as he could, he cut off the quiet streets of DeVere Heights and scrambled down to the beach. He ran at the edge of the shore. Ran until his lungs were burning and his legs were aching. And then he kept on running. He welcomed the pain in his body. If it kept him from thinking, he’d keep running.
    But a half an hour later, he had to stop. He dropped onto the cool sand, his chest heaving as he gasped for breath.
    Slowly, as he stared up at the huge arc of sky above him, his breathing returned to normal, and he realized the exertion had cleared his head. There was no way he could deal with his life without Sienna in it. But there was obviously no way they could continue their relationship in the face of all the parental negativity.
    He knew what he and Sienna had to do.
    And tomorrow, he’d tell her.
     
    ‘No, turn a little more to the left,’ Adam told Belle at the cafeteria table the next day. ‘A little more . . . stop. Perfect.’
    ‘This is a little extreme, don’t you think?’ Belle laughed.
    ‘Not at all, and keep still!’ Adam instructed.
    Belle sat absolutely still for all of about two seconds before collapsing into giggles again. Adam shook his head in despair and adjusted himself so that his body blocked Jason’s face from the door. ‘When you’ve stopped laughing,’ he said, frowning at Belle, ‘you’re blocking Sienna, and I’m blocking Jason. There will be no lip-reading on our watch.’
    ‘You’re too funny!’ Belle exclaimed, settling into position. ‘Nobody is here to lip-read anyway. We’re
inside.
No one sits inside for lunch. I didn’t even know there was an inside until today.’
    ‘Joke all you want,’ Adam replied. ‘Just don’t move.’ He shot a sideways glance at Jason. ‘OK. You’re clear.’
    ‘Good. Now tell me what’s going on,’ Sienna said. She started to lean toward Jason, but Adam
tsk-tsked
her back into place.
    Jason swallowed hard, gazing at her gorgeous face. Adam and Belle could have been on another planet as far as he was concerned. They were there for camouflage, nothing else.
    ‘I know what we have to do,’ Jason said. He took a deep breath. ‘I think we have to . . . We have to go back . . .’
    ‘. . . to being just friends,’ Sienna finished for him. ‘I know. I was up all night thinking about it. I won’t be able to take it if I get sent away from you. At least this way, we can still see each other.’
    ‘And talk to each other,’ Jason said.
Just not ever touch each other
, he added silently.
    ‘It’s going to be so hard,’ Sienna breathed.
    ‘It’s going to be a killer,’ Jason agreed. ‘But we can do it. We
have
to do it. And you know that we can. We did it for most of last semester.’
    Sienna gave a faint smile. ‘We did. And it won’t be forever. My parents aren’t going to have control of me for my whole life or anything. At