stay together. I had to do it, Drew was
too chicken.”
“Really?” I ask. “Was he afraid of getting in
trouble or the curse?”
“He’s superstitious. The curse thing freaks
him out.”
“So you’re making a promise to each other?”
Kasey shrugs and flips her ponytail. “I
don’t know. It’s just for fun. So Annie and Alex
broke up, whatever. They’re not the first.”
“But what about the Billy Jones curse?”
“Maybe people like a challenge. Nothing
says ‘I love you’ like defacing a cursed bridge,
right? Look at what happened to Isobel and
Henry—they wrote their names on the bridge,
broke up, and then—”
“Yeah, didn’t they have an accident near
the bridge?”
She nods. “They thought they saw someone
about to jump.”
“Maybe writing your name on that bridge
is just bad luck,” I say.
Kasey stands up. “Maybe. But since both
my name and Drew’s are on it, I hope not.
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