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bitter, and now having to approach Claudia could definitely be awkward. He got enough of that at home these days.
    But unless he wanted to spend the rest of the day panicking, he didn’t have much choice.
    â€œHey,” he said, approaching Jane and Claudia when swim class was over.
    â€œHey,” Jane said, squinting up at him.
    â€œYo,” Claudia said.
    â€œHow are you guys?” Teo asked, looking at each of them in turn.
    â€œPeachy,” Claudia said.
    â€œGood. Nothing has really changed in my life in the past couple of hours,” Jane said.
    Teo looked at her intently in an attempt to decipher if she seemed sort of shifty or like she was trying to hide something.
    â€œI was telling Jane that my dad and stepmother are basically blackmailing me to bring Dinah and Job to swim class all summer.”
    â€œOh yeah?” Teo asked, half listening, half examining Jane’s body language.
    â€œYeah, I want to go to this superexpensive art school in Chicago, so they said that if I could save them money by being Dinah and Job’s nanny this summer, they would put all that toward school.”
    â€œSounds like a good deal,” Teo said. At this point, Jane was staring back at him with a confused expression. She couldn’t know. But what if she knew? The little voice in the back of Teo’s head wouldn’t let it go.
    Claudia was barely containing her laughter. “You guys should just kiss already.”
    â€œUm,” he said, looking from Claudia to Jane. “What?”
    â€œWhat? Oh my God,” Jane said, covering her face.
    Teo’s eyes went wide. “Us?” he asked.
    â€œYeah, you’ve been staring at each other this whole time.”
    â€œUh, no.” Teo backed away a step.
    â€œUh, yes ,” Claudia said.
    Jane stared at the pavement, and Teo felt terrible.
    â€œHey, Jane,” Teo said, hoping to break the tension. She looked up at him through her eyelashes. “Any chance you know how to sink through concrete?”
    She started laughing.
    Just then the girls came skipping over with several of their friends, including a little girl who Teo realized was probably Claudia’s stepsister.
    â€œLook at what Dinah made!” Keegan said, showing Jane and Teo a folded-up piece of paper.
    â€œClaudia taught me,” Dinah said proudly.
    â€œOh, that’s a cootie catcher,” Jane said.
    â€œYes! A cootie catcher,” Rory said. “It catches all the cooties and locks ’em up and throws away the key.”
    Jane nodded seriously at this description. “It’s for telling fortunes,” she explained.
    â€œYeah, it’s the funnest. We like telling fortunes,” Piper said.
    â€œYou know,” Teo interjected, leaning into the little crowd, “Jane used to be awesome at this stuff. She was really into Magic 8 Balls and tarot cards. And she used to make the best cootie catchers.”
    Jane blushed a little, Teo thought, but it could have been the sun getting to her.
    â€œReally?” Keegan asked. “Can you make one for each of us?”
    â€œOf course,” Jane said.
    â€œJane knows all sorts of stuff like that. About superstitions and cool myths.”
    â€œI do?” Jane asked.
    â€œYeah, you were always telling me to hold my breath when we drove past graveyards and not to step on any cracks in the sidewalk.”
    â€œReally? I don’t remember.”
    Teo shrugged. “You made an impression. I have never opened an umbrella in the house, nor will I ever.”
    Jane laughed again.
    Piper pulled on the hem of Teo’s shirt, so he knelt down to talk to her.
    â€œHow do you know Jane?” she asked.
    â€œWhen we were kids, her mom used to babysit me sometimes while our mom went to work.”
    â€œReally?”
    â€œYup.”
    â€œYou were friends?”
    â€œSure,” Teo said.
    â€œAre you still friends?” Keegan asked. She had a talent for