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"But didn’t you feel it that day? On the beach? Didn’t everything see of the universe A better liar would deny it But some of us don’t want to live our lives as liars She bites her lip and nods

"Yes But I don’t knoho I was feeling that for Even if I believe it was you, you have to understand that my history with Justin plays into it I wouldn’t have felt that ith a stranger It wouldn’t have been so perfect"

"How do you know?"

"That’s my point I don’t"

She looks at her phone, and whether or not she truly needs to leave, I know this is the sign that she’s going to

"I have toall this way," I tell her

It’s aard So aard

"Will I see you again?" I ask

She nods

"I’ to show you what it really means"

"What?"

"Love"

Is she scared by this? Eh to tell

Toet home--partly because I went to Starbucks, and partly because I then had to walk two et back home, and was late for dinner, which our father roundly chewed me out over

"I hope whoever she was, she orth it," Tom taunts

I look at hi for the coffee or the folk tunes they play on the speakers I know you better than that"

I rened to wash all the dishes While doing so, I turn on the radio, and when the local news comes on, Nathan Daldry comes with it

"So tell us, Nathan, what you experienced last Saturday," the interviewer says

"I was possessed There’s no other word for it I wasn’t in control of my own body I consider myself lucky to be alive And I want to ask anyone else who’s ever been possessed like this, just for a day, to contact me Because, I’ll be honest with you, Chuck, a lot of people think I’ fun of me constantly But I knohat happened And I know I’m not the only one"

I know I’m not the only one

This is the sentence that haunts me I wish I felt the same certainty

I wish I weren’t the only one

Day 6004

The nextI wake up in the same room

In the same body