Chapter 37: 21I Knew The Entire Time
The room goes quiet. I’m still in the kitchen, frozen, and wet. The water from my hair, now drips on the
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kitchen floor.
I open the freezer, just to double check, even though I know there’s no ice cream left. But, with the
freezer door open, it stops me from see-ing her room.
I go upstairs, grab my bag, MP3 yer, headphones, and my cam-era.
I can’t spend another night in the house alone, not again.
My car was in the shop, so I call a cab and go downtown.
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There were lights, people,ughter, and enough life to stop the thoughts.
The wind blows, and the air is misty. That’s Versa for you.
With my camera, I take photos of people without their permission. They look happy. It seemed like they
were in a different world then me, a better one.
I stay downtown long enough to discover they had ice cream, that I could eat. Taste like sugar-soaked
vani, but it did the job. When the lights in the town start to turn off, I start to walk home.
I look at brown cement the entire time, while I listen to my head-phones, and y a game with the
sidewalk. I avoided the lines on the sidewalk, the lines were my secrets. If I stepped on a line, then I
had to say a secret out loud. I don’t get too far, before I step on a line.
I let a secret out. I could blurt them loud, and feel better.
The headphones were in, the music was loud.
Another line. Another secret.
The next secret is about Hayes. I go to blurt it, when a car passes me fast. It scares me.
I look at my feet again, I feel paranoid. Did the person in the car hear my secrets? Will this travel
around town too? Another thing with the Bartley’s and Richards, more drama again. Because of me.
I stop the game, and instead pick at my nails, while the music-forts me.
I can see my shadow on the sidewalk, the car stopped ahead of me. Yet, I keep walking.
The car honks, and I take out my headphones.
“Get in”