Kendra becomes aware of the scores of eyes on us, and tries to wriggle from my grasp.
I don’t let go. “They didn’t vote for us. Screw ’em,” I whisper.
She laughs and melts back into me.
“How’s your father taking this?” I ask.
“He hates it,” she admits. “What about your family? Do they know yet?”
She looks into my eyes and sighs. “What did Romeo and Juliet do?”
“They died,” I remind her gently. “Some mix-up with the poison—”
She cuts me off. “But what if they’d lived?”
I think it over. “Same as us, I guess. Stay cool, and never bring the folks together for a meet-and-greet.”
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