บท 298: Diane.

"Did Rachel let you keep that swimsuit?" Lucas asked Jen as he looked at the bag she placed on her legs.

"She did, she said it didn't fit her," Jen said happily. How couldn't she be happy? She got herself a new swimsuit, and it looked like Lucas liked it more than she did from how he had been behaving at the party. He had been discretely slipping a finger through the openings at the sides of the swimsuit.

"We should quickly get home," Lucas said, and Jen felt the car speed up. She could already tell what he was thinking about. It was like he had been in the mood since earlier, so she had already expected that their night would probably end with them tangled up in bed.

*

"Is Jen seeing someone?" Diane asked, and both Alex and Jake choked on their food. It had been six months since their mother asked about Jen. Both of them had noticed that she would always pay attention whenever they talked about her, but she never mentioned her name since she left.