CHAPTER 17.

  We were driving back to the back in silence. Gabby was sitting next to me with her arms crossed over her chest, slowly troking arm and looking out of the window.

Cassy opened the door, thanked for the ride and got out as I stopped outside her house. Gabby opened her door quickly and went out to give her a hug and they said something incoherent and I didn't want to listen in. I just wanted to get home. Every little thing that was keeping me from getting Gabby inside the house was pissing me off further.

We drove up and I stopped the car outside the house. It was dark and everyone had gone of to bed. 

We walked up the stairs and neither one of us said a word. 

"Hi, there. How was your night?" My mom came out into the hallway just as we reached the top of the stairs. She was dressed in her nightgown with a morning robe tied around her. Had she been waiting up? She was always asleep by now.