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making things awkward, much like her father.
    â€œUm, yes,” Teo said, smiling over at Jane, hoping she would play along. In kid world, their passing acquaintance would probably be called friendship, even if they never talked to each other, spent zero time together, and mostly avoided each other at school. Although Teo knew that it was partially his fault for always being around Ravi.
    â€œOf course,” Jane said.
    â€œDo you ever have playdates?” Piper asked.
    Claudia snorted. Teo had kind of forgotten she was still sitting there.
    â€œNot anymore,” Jane said. “Moms don’t really set up playdates for kids in high school.”
    Piper nodded seriously.
    Claudia and her stepsiblings left a minute later, and Jane started getting the girls ready to go home.
    â€œHey,” Teo said, putting his hand on Jane’s arm. “I wanted to thank you again for offering to clean up the basement for me. That was cool of you.”
    â€œYeah, no problem. We haven’t done it yet, because we needed to get ready for swim class. But I figure I’ll trick the girls into doing most of it by telling them it’s a race.”
    â€œYou have quite the devious mind, Jane Connelly.”
    â€œI’ll take that as a compliment.”
    After work, Teo was happy to find that the basement was in perfect shape. Not only that, but he had been wrong: He had closed out his tabs from earlier that morning. He hadn’t wiped his history, but at least the dad search hadn’t been sitting there for the whole world to see.
    It was also nice to know he had an ally in Jane. Now he just had to try to get Ravi to stop antagonizing her, and they’d be in pretty good shape.

 
    Chapter 6
    On Jane’s second day of babysitting, she made the girls a huge pile of cootie catchers. They spent most of the morning before swim class making up creative fortunes to write inside them.
    â€œâ€˜Your babies will look like puppies,’” Keegan said.
    â€œThat’s not very nice,” Jane said. “You don’t want babies to look like dogs.”
    â€œBut puppies are cute!”
    â€œThey are,” Jane said. “But I think we can do better.”
    â€œâ€˜You will get a puppy’?” Rory said.
    â€œI like that one,” Jane said, writing it down.
    Jane worked on creating a long list of ideas because the girls wanted to make unique cootie catchers for each of their friends and Teo.
    â€œWhat should we put in Teo’s?” Jane asked.
    â€œâ€˜You will marry Jane so she can be our sister,’” Piper said.
    â€œWow, thanks, guys. But I don’t want Teo—”
    â€œTeo is going to marry his girlfriend, Megan,” Rory said.
    â€œTeo has a girlfriend?” Jane asked.
    â€œNot anymore,” Keegan said. “He told Mom they broke up a long time ago.”
    Jane wasn’t sure what “a long time ago” was in kid time, but it got her thinking: She never heard much about Teo and girls. Not that they were exactly in the same social circle, though.
    They were the same level of dork at their school, just at opposite ends of the spectrum. Jane was band dork adjacent, and Teo was a kind of smart, sort of athletic dork. In fact, if he didn’t hang out with Ravi, who was mostly just too smart for his own good and had a tendency to turn people off, Teo might even have been popular. He was cute and on the soccer team. Jane had to wonder if he actually chose his dork status.
    When she and the girls got home from swim class, Jane was not thrilled to find Ravi on the back deck, reading a book and acting like he owned the place.
    â€œJane,” he said, not even trying to hide his air of disdain while Teo wasn’t around.
    She rolled her eyes and corralled the girls into the house—except for Piper, who decided to sit on the deck and give Ravi the third degree. Jane listened through the screen door.
    â€œWhat are you