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"I need the book by tonight"

I narrowed my eyes

"I’ll call you when I have it"

"Ti out for all of us, Ayd"

I scooped up ood thing I’ve always been fast then" I made hi the coffee shop

When I got to the Jeep, the first thing I did was call home I asked my mom a hundred and one times if she had anyway for me to contact Asa, but she stonewalled s were, that she er, but as usual she just blewto the city had e Kentucky nuain I even texted it a couple of ti to freak out, and have a hissy fit because I couldn’t start to fix things if I couldn’t getwheel and screahtbulb went off I called Adaenuine pleasure in his voice when he answered

"Hey, Ayd I didn’t think I would be hearing fro okay?"

I closedwheel I felt so cold, and not from the chilly Denver weather, just cold and frozen fro

"No, no, nothing is okay" I didn’t mean to blurt that out, but I couldn’t controlI can do for you? Are you all right?"

This guy was just inherently nice, just a good guy all around and it made me feel even worse that I just couldn’t return his affection It also made it pretty clear that whatever I had with Jet was just so oing to have with anyone else, and I had just walked away froasp in acute pain

"I just need to know if you’ve heard froured since he was in town, he et in touch with you if he was bored"

There was silence on the other end of the phone and I had to restrain ainst the windshield

"Is that all? You sound pretty bad, Ayd"

"Things with Jet didn’t exactly work out, and I’ht now"

He cleared his throat and it rasped across my skin like a bunch of tiny razors

"I have to say I’s to work out between us, I think it was always pretty clear that there was soured out it was him on Valentine’s Day, but I feel like I should have seen it sooner"

"Unfortunately, things don’t always go the e plan But seriously, I really need to find Asa and he didn’t tell et hiain and I found hed so heavily that I could feel it hit h the phone line

"I o for a drink He’s staying at the one over by the stadiuuy and he says he’s just worried about you being out here all alone, without any family to watch out for you"

Oh, Asa was the nicest guy in the world all right, when he wanted so he orried about was hoas going to help him out of his latest jam

"Did he ask you for money?"

If Adam had already played the role Asa had scoped hi to be screwed There was no way he was going to stick around and barter with ain and this time it annoyedhis ti, but I had life-and-death s, and the sooner the better

"No He did ask howand a bunch a questions about what your days looked like Like I said, I think he’s just concerned about you He made it sound like you don’t make too much of an effort to stay in touch with your family back home"

I could hear the disapproval in his tone, but I didn’t let it bother otten close to the heart of ht I was just a bad sister and a bad daughter Things were beginning to be clear to me now All the parts of me that I had hated, and had buried so far doere the parts that were responsible for s I was today If wonderful people like Shaw and Cora and a guy like Jet could care about me, then both parts of me deserved a break, finally

"Okay, thanks, Adam You take care"