When You Least Expect It by Haley Cass

Author:Haley Cass [Cass, Haley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-20T06:00:00+00:00

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Hangout Weekend – also known as Columbus Day weekend – has always been a time where Caroline and her friends forego their normal routines.

She’s grinning as she answers their group message about who’s bringing what for when they head up there in two days and she is more than ready for a vacation.

“What’s that smile over?” Hannah asks as she shoulders her own backpack while Abbie is gathering her own, ready to go home for the evening.

The sight of it makes her involuntarily grin even wider – because Hannah is thriving as she’s diving back into earning her degree and she loves being able to see it.

Before she shakes herself out of it and holds up her phone. “Just getting ready for the weekend.”

It only dawns on her then that Hannah had been invited to Hangout Weekend. She doesn’t know how she’d forgotten that her friends invited Hannah along with them when they’d met her on the Fourth of July, but, then again, she supposes she’s had a lot on her mind in regards to Hannah since then.

She can see in the way gray eyes widen and Hannah brings up her hand to land on her forehead that she forgot as well, even before she says, “I totally forgot. I mean, not that I assume I’m still invited. Your friends were just really friendly and –”

“They don’t invite anyone if they don’t mean it,” she cuts her off in assurance.

What’s not assuring is the near-panic she has at how the hell is she supposed to maintain any of her distancing rules from the last month and a half if she and Hannah are spending the entire weekend together?

“I really wish I could come,” Hannah’s voice is colored in genuine regret.

And just like that, she’s hit with relief. It won’t be a weekend of trying to figure out how to maintain her Getting Over Hannah plan while also still cutting loose and relaxing, after all.

“I haven’t had a getaway like that in –” Hannah snorts in derisive laughter at herself, lifting her hands to tug at the straps of her backpack. The one Caroline had bought for her that she actually uses and looks unfairly adorable with. “Not ever. I think it’s really incredible that you still keep in touch with your friends from college.”

Caroline immediately feels like a huge asshole. She knows how isolating Hannah’s marriage had been, how under Michael’s thumb Hannah had lost touch very quickly with just about everyone other than her mother.

“I was just so busy, I didn’t think to make any plans for Abbie. Two nights, last minute, is not the easiest feat,” she adds with a sad smile.

“I’m going to grandma and grandpa’s this weekend!” Abbie announces as she makes her way into the living room from where she was clearly eavesdropping in the kitchen.

She stands between Caroline and Hannah, looking up at them with an expectant stare.

Caroline’s dark eyes lock on Hannah’s and they exchange a quick look where Hannah’s confusion is palpable before she looks back down at Abbie.

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