Chapter 4

“You got a deal, dork.”

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“Did you ask him?”

Henry covered the speaker of his phone as Ash’s voice came out of it. Not that he really had a reason for covering it. Luke’s been snoring away on the couch for over an hour and would sleep through an explosion. No way would he wake up to Ashley’s voice coming through his phone from inside his bedroom. With the door closed. But Henry quickly snatched up his phone anyway and turned off the speaker.

“Yes,” Henry hissed, “I asked him.”

She’d been bugging him since he first told her he checked the plus one box on his invite to this over-the-top party. He wasn’t even really thinking about it when he did it either. Only that he didn’t want to go alone. Maybe in the back of his mind he wondered what it’d be like if Luke went with him, but it was Ash that came out and suggested asking him. She was also the only one in the world who knew how Henry felt about Luke.

“And…?”