Tens - The Invitation: Grand Ridge University by Jaye Pratt & Jenna Daring

Author:Jaye Pratt & Jenna Daring [Pratt, Jaye & Daring, Jenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-02-17T00:00:00+00:00

I packed a bag the night of Forrest’s party and asked Otto if I could stay with him after Sage mentioned she can’t have guests in her room. Otto gave me the keys to his room at the equestrian centre—he said if he took a girl home to his parents, they would start planning his wedding.

After Darwin announced I was his sister at Forrest’s party, I have stewed about it all damn weekend. How is this possible and why didn’t my mom tell me? She never lied to me, or at least I thought she didn’t.

This changes everything, but also changes nothing. I need to confront Jennifer and Lionel, but how does that conversation even go?

Hey, so I messed around with Darwin, and now he tells me he is my brother.

Fucking hell, this shit is messed up. I have to find Beatrice and ask her—she clearly knows something.

My phone vibrates on Otto’s table. I smooth down my uniform and walk over to see if it’s Sage. It’s not. It’s Darwin with a link to a song on YouTube by Cruelty called “R U OK.” I listen to it all the way through . . . Is this him waving the white flag?

I send him a link back to “Fine” by Kyle Hume. The lyrics convey exactly how overwhelmed I’m feeling, and I need him to know I’m not okay, even though I pretend to be on the outside. My mind is spinning out of control with question after question. Does Jennifer know? Does Lionel know? And how did Darwin find out? He could have come to me and told me. But that’s the thing I’m learning about Darwin: he likes to self-sabotage. Now he’s in a spiral, and he better hope his friends will be there to pull him out of it. I know it’s gross we made out, but that isn’t on us—it’s the one issue I refuse to dwell on, and neither should he.

Darwin doesn’t respond to my text, so I grab my backpack and flick Sage and Atti a message. Atti sends back a frowny face and asks why I missed our tutoring session this morning.

I make my way outside. The equestrian centre is already bustling with people tending to the horses. I type out a message to Atti asking him to meet me in the cafeteria when I bump straight into a solid chest. My hand comes up to steady myself and I realise it’s Forrest.

I pull myself away from him. “Watch where you’re going,” I snap, even though I’m the one who walked into him.

“Aila,” he says.

“Don’t ‘Aila’ me! Just leave me alone. All this hot and cold is too much—is it because you haven’t had me yet? Please go back to hating me. It makes this so much easier . . . I don’t want to be here anymore,” I sob, the dam finally breaking, and Forrest pulls me into his arms. “I miss my mom, and I miss my friends, and my life. I can’t do it! You all broke me just like you wanted.

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