“Wait,” I said. “What happened to your original date? Your dad said he backed out at the last minute.”
“Oliver’s my friend,” she said. “We were supposed to go together. Just as friends. But then Dad started talking about this whole plan two weeks ago. And he asked if Oliver would mind going with his other friends instead.” GetParenting Tips
“So Oliver didn’t exactly back out?”
“No,” Georgia said. “He’s here tonight. He was the guy in the blue tux who did the worm during ‘Uptown Funk.’”
I remembered him. He’d knocked over a chair.
“Dad just preferred the ‘backed out’ explanation,” Georgia said. “It sounded more urgent.”
“Everyone knew,” I said. “Everyone. Madison. Your aunt. Oliver. Except me.”
“Pretty much,” Georgia said.
“And I already told Dad what I think,” she said. GetParenting Tips
She turned the screen toward me. She’d sent the message twenty minutes earlier, during the last slow song.
