Tyler
Chase, shut up.
Lukas
It’s over.
Joshua
What do you mean?
Lukas left the conversation.
Chase
fuck that shit.
Chase added Lukas to the conversation.
Chase
Listen here asshole, you don’t get to leave because you’re hurting.
Chase
If you don’t want to talk now, that’s fine. But you don’t get to shut us out indefinitely.
I can play this game all day.
Micha
ooooh, it’s been a long time since Mom and Dad fought.
Lukas
CHAPTER 39
aimee
I hadn’t counted passingdays this obsessively since after the fall.
I was counting the seconds, minutes, hours and days that passed where everything was different—had changed. Now, I was back to counting and it hurt.
It hurt knowing that it had been three days. 36 hours, 4,320 minutes…259,200 seconds since I walked out of Lukas’ room. I shut the door on whatever we had.
Three days of trying to convince my family I was fine, keep Orion from finding Lukas and kicking his ass, and plaster a smile that I knew looked beyond fake onto my face.
Five days after,Eloise and I were tucked behind some evergreens, phones out and ready. Orion wasfinallyproposing to Annalise.
“He should be paying us,” Eloise grumbled.
“Shush, they’re coming.” I whispered.
She grumbled again, trying to find a position that was comfortable. I was on photo duty, while Eloise filmed it.
I heard the crunch of boots on the mix of salt and gravel.
I swallowed past the lump that was about to go down my throat.
