Page 82 of The Apple Tree

I looked down. “Oh. Oops.”

“Oops? You didn’t know you put your underwear on—” She slapped her hand over her mouth again and then slid it to her waist. “You did it, you did it, you did IT,” she hissed. Her jaw dropped like a brick from a ten-story building.

“I didn’t.”

“Nobody puts their underwear on inside out unless they’re doing it quickly and in the dark!”

“Shh!” I put one hand on the back of her head and my other over her mouth. “Why don’t you wake up the whole town? I knew I shouldn’t have told you.”

She wriggled out of my hold. “I hope you get pregnant.” She scowled at me before jerking open the door.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

ROD STEWART, “LOVE TOUCH”

Eve

“Tell me everything,”Erin said as we put on our choir robes before church the next morning. “And you should have called me last night!”

“Let’s go, ladies,” my dad said, peeking around the corner.

Erin frowned.

I shrugged. “It’s not my fault you were late this morning.”

“It was my brother’s stupid fault,” she grumbled.

We quickly got to our seats just as my dad welcomed everyone and bowed his head to pray.

“Just tell me if you did it?” Erin whispered.

I folded my hands and closed my eyes as if I didn’t hear her.

She elbowed me.

I elbowed her back.

Dad cleared his throat in the middle of his prayer, which meant he saw Erin and I misbehaving.

“Amen,” everyone echoed my dad.

As the choir sang, my gaze navigated to Kyle, and he smirked. I was sure he thought I was lip-syncing—and I was. However,I wasn’t in the mood for his smugness because I was still mad at him. So I didn’t give him another glance for the rest of the service.

“Call me immediately!” Erin said after the congregation filed out of the church before I joined my parents and Gabby.

I nodded.

“Eve,” Drew called my name as I descended the steps in front of the church.

“And the plot thickens,” Gabby mumbled, hugging her Bible.

I shot her a scowl before facing Drew.

“Wanna go to homecoming with me?” Drew asked. “I got your dad’s permission.”

“Uh …” I surveyed the churchyard and found Kyle and Josh talking to the Vanderleests, but his attention was laser-focused on me. “I graduated.”

“No duh. So what?” Drew said.

---