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His father sounded tense and exasperated when he called and invited him and Scarlette to di
“Sure, Dad. I’ll see what Scarlette’s doing. She just got off work an hour ago. I’ll call you back.” He did, and said they would be there at seven-thirty, in time to sit down to di
“You’ll like her,” Daisy assured Sava
The two girls trooped down to di
Tom introduced Travis to Sava
As they were talking, Luisa came down the stairs and walked into the living room, stu
“What is this?” she asked coldly, fearing that Tom had organized some kind of di
“Travis called and said he wanted to come to di
“Of course I’m happy to see Travis, and Scarlette,” Luisa said, gushing as she rushed toward them. Her eyes were still smoldering, but she smiled broadly as she embraced them both, and made idle chitchat with them, while she totally ignored Sava
They went in to di
Everyone seemed to relax during di
She called her mother and told her she had met Travis and Scarlette, and they were really nice to her. Sava
The two girls held hands again after chatting for a few minutes, and this time, even faster than the night before, they fell asleep. For Sava
Chapter 9
Sava
She said little on the drive north on Mark Clark Expressway. And she was obviously worried about it, as he tried to reassure her. Once they reached Daniel Island and the sprawling fifty-acre campus on Seven Farms Drive, he put his Jaguar in a space in the parking lot and walked her into the principal’s office, where they congratulated her on her good grades in New York and welcomed her to the school. The assistant principal handed her a schedule, which looked reasonable to Sava
The school was much larger than the one she’d gone to in New York, and looked like the schools she’d seen in movies, with miles of lockers lining every hall. There were students congregating in little clusters, with books in their arms, laughing, and then hurrying to class. A few of the boys glanced at her with her lithe figure and long blond hair. She had worn jeans because they said it was allowed, Converse sneakers, and a plaid blouse that hung out of her jeans, with a sweatshirt from her volleyball team in New York. She knew it was too late to join the team here, but she was hoping to play intramural sports if she had the chance.
The first class on her schedule was French. She took AP French classes in New York and had gotten good grades for her boards. The teacher was reading a paragraph from a book as Sava