SS2 02: Fast Forward to Five or So Hours

"Yes, I want to hear it too," Evangeline backed up.

Eve narrowed her gaze at them openly, including at her mother. Was she a reality show they were watching? Their investment in her love life seemed unhealthy. Just because she wasn't eager to date, it didn't mean she had no interest.

"There is nothing to tell," Eve eventually told them. "He left as soon as I rejected him."

"You mean, when you were in the middle of it. He didn't even let you finish," Andie corrected. She stood up to grab some water in the fridge for them to drink.

"Are boys suddenly different in Cornelia High from when I attended it?" Evangeline wondered out loud, glancing up the ceiling with knitted eyebrows. "Why else would my daughter not be interested in anyone?"

Rose pursed her lips. "I think they're just not Noah who I never met."