You Saved Me Once Book 1
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 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 player, 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.

There were lights, people, laughter, 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 vanilla, 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 play 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 com-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"