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Naked Truth - Chapter III

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SCARLETT !!

My mother yells from somewhere downstairs. "I'm going to the nursing home! Are you sure you don't want to volunteer today?"

"No thanks!! I've got some stuff to do!" I yell back.

It's 11:30.

I still have over an hour before I'm supposed to pick up Emma.

I decide to go outside, pretend to get the mail or something, peek over and act surprised to see him there.

It's summer for God's sake, and I haven't seen him since the last day of school, especially me, Aria's closest friend. We can even talk about Aria. That'll be perfect! I can go over just to find out how Aria is.

I haven't spoken to her in two whole weeks, after all.

"I saw you out here working." I practice into the mirror. "By the way, have you heard from Aria?"

I do want to know if she's having a good time. Maybe Jace has some news.

I'll just go voer and say hello, I tell myself, squirting down my hair with extra spray gel. I repeat the word, "hello" in my head as I make my way past the mailbox and across the front lawn.

"Jace!" I shout.

I raise my right arm up and dip my hips to the left, the way Aria once did when she spotted me and Emma coming across the school parking lot.

"Hey, what's up?" he says.

"Not much, I didn't know you worked for the Stevens."

He nods and runs his fingers through his hair.

"How's your summer going?"

I scour my brain for something to talk about. For all the time I've spent imagining this moment, I feel like I should have a dozen things to say. But somehow, I can't think of one.

"Aria will be home in a few weeks, I guess." He said.

"Yeah, Emma and I are getting together later to start planning a surprise welcome-home party. You'll have to come. To the party, I mean." I twirl a piece of hair and bring it up to my lip for coverage. "Has she called you lately?"

"A couple of days ago. She's doing good. Likes having her own pool."

"Is she getting along with her father?"

"I guess so. I don't know. I only talked to her for five minutes. She had to go."

"Yeah, she must be pretty busy. I thought we'd be talking more, you know. . . since she has free nights and weekends on her cell plan. My parents refuse to let me get one, and I know they'd absolutely kill me if i I called her in California." A weird gurgling sound escapes my throat when I say California. Quite attractive.

Jace shrugs and looks away.

So not interested.

I imagine what Aria would do, how she would handle the situation.

"It's so hot our here. How can you work in this heat?"

I grab the front of my shirt and jerked it back and forth from my chest as a fan. I notice Jace peek down at my front, then at the house, then back at my front again.