would probably go to sleep after a while, and unless someone purposely woke it up, he would be fine. He didnât think Keegan really had it in her to be that nosy, and the twins couldnât read that well yet.
The good news was that Jane and his sisters would arrive at the pool in mere minutes for swim class. Surely he would know right off the bat whether Jane had found out his secret. Or, worse, whether Keegan had fulfilled his nightmarish prophecy of reading his search results. Wouldnât he?
When Jane came through the pool gate, she waved at him and didnât seem particularly fussed, or like she had learned his secret that morning. At least he hadnât been looking at porn, he told himself. But he found little comfort in that thought.
The pit in his stomach grew.
Teo watched Jane walk over to the covered seating after having made sure the girls joined the right groups. Rory was still in a state of distress because she was in a lower group than Piper and Keegan were, but she needed to learn that swimming wasnât something to fool around with.
Jane sat down next to a girl Teo knew from school but wasnât really friends with. Claudia Lee, thatâs her name , he thought. Teo tried to read Janeâs lips as she was talking to Claudia. Not that he expected her to gossip with Claudia Lee about his personal dad-searching business, even if she had snooped on his computer, but still, he didnât really know Jane all that well.
He couldnât figure out how Jane knew Claudia. Jane ran in a crowd of dorky, less smart girls. She was like a band geek who wasnât in the band. Unless maybe she was in the band. Teo honestly wasnât sure. He couldnât even remember the last time he had talked to Jane at school, or even really noticed her there. Maybe when theyâd ended up sitting next to each other at the drunk-driving assembly the year before.
He really didnât want Raviâs crazy anti-Jane propaganda to get to him. While he and Ravi were playing video games last night, Ravi wouldnât shut up about how terrible Jane was.
âI swear to God, she is the stupidest girl Iâve ever met,â Ravi had said out of nowhere.
âWho now?â Teo had asked, mostly to annoy Ravi. Heâd known exactly who Ravi had been talking about, but he sort of got tired of listening to the same old, same old from him. Sometimes he liked to mix it up and ask all the wrong questions.
âJane Connelly. Sheâs dumb.â
âHow do you figure?â Teo asked.
ââUh, really, Ravi,ââ Ravi said in a voice that Teo assumed was supposed to be Janeâs. ââI donât get it. How do the ducks know where to cross?ââ
âShe never asked that.â
âSure she did.â
âIt was probably meant to be a joke, but you have no sense of humor whatsoever.â
âI swear she asked it in driverâs ed last year.â
âSo is this really how weâre celebrating the end of school?â Teo asked. âSitting in my basement, bitching about Jane Connelly?â
They had changed subjects after that, thank God, because Teo couldnât handle much more of Raviâs Jane-bashing.
The thing was, there wasnât anything wrong with Jane. And he actually had a newfound respect for her after this morning. Not only had she totally ignored how ridiculously embarrassing Buck was, but sheâd also offered to clean up the mess in the basement. In his book, that made her a decent person.
Maybe he should just talk to Jane, see if she acted like she knew his secret.
The problem was that Claudia Lee was a friend of this other girl Megan. Teo had gone out with her a few times last year. They were in a lot of the same classes and were both on the forensics team. She was on the girlsâ soccer team and he was on the boysâ. It made sense for them to go out. But things had fizzled between them, and Megan had been