“Dirt emergency?” Tara asked, as she tilted her head and eyed Shelly.
“You’re deflecting.”
Tara shrugged. She totally was deflecting and trying to distract herself from the fact that Elias still hadn’t responded to her news about Tucker asking her to go to the prom. What had I hoped for? Had she secretly been hoping he would lose his mind and beg her not to go? Maybe.
By the time Shelly pulled into Carol’s driveway Tara was thinking of all the ways she could distract herself to keep from looking at her phone every five minutes, as she had done the entire drive.
“Hey,” Shelly said before Tara could climb out of the car.
“Yeah?”
“How’s the whole superhero thing? Is your hymen still impenetrable?”
Tara rolled her eyes. “If something that major had changed—and I don’t mean related to my
