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It had been forty-two days since I’d last seen Andrea in the treatment facility And those forty-two days felt like a lifetio

I knew she was out She’d been out for the last week and a half, according to Sydney, and I hadn’t heard from her There was an ache in my chest, but I’das she needed me to and I wanted her to come to me when she was ready

I was not and could not be her first priority right then I understood that and believed in that a hundred percent She needed to take care of herself first, and if that required another forty-two days, then so be it

But I missed her Fuck I ave as good as she got I h and the way her brown eyes reed whiskey I missed those tiny, feminine sounds she made, and I missed the way she said my name

I simply just missed her

And truthfully, I didn’t think of her differently Yeah, I’d wanted to yell at her when I found out she’d been drinking and driving--she could’ve killed soe, but the fact that she’d iotten treatment and held herself responsible for her actions lessened that anger pretty quickly

I was just happy that she finally had an answer for why she turned to alcohol--that we all had an answer to why Knowledge was everything, the only way she could get better Having depression didn’t ht less of soe part of ht then--wanted to help her in any way possible, to take care of her But I knew she didn’t need that Andrea didn’t need me to swoop in and save her I knew damn well she could save herself

She would save herself

A beep intruded on thedown, I pulledthe text htened and al the stop button, I stared at the s as my lips spread into a wide smile

Chapter 25

Andrea