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I have to tell Lark what I found I have to show her

There is no other choice

By the time I find the evidence I hoped didn’t exist, Lark has already left with Mason for their fifth date I debate calling her and telling her the truth over the phone, but decide it isn’t right to spring so like that on her when she’s alone with Mason, et messy

So instead, I send a text, warning Lark that I have some bad news and that she should come home as soon as possible

And then I stick my phone in my pocket and wait

Felicity gets up from her nap and we play in the backyard with her toys for over an hour, and I wait I put on Blue’s Clues and whip up a leue pie for desert, while Melody makes chicken stir-fry for supper, and wait I feed Felicity and give her a bath and spread out toys for her on the floor of our room while I fold clothes, and wait

I read o downstairs to read until Lark gets hooes and still Lark doesn’t respond to my text

She doesn’t respond, and she doesn’t come home

By twelve-thirty, I realize she’s not co home at all and make an it, lying staring at the ceiling, certain so terrible is about to happen

Chapter 20

Mason

Date Five

The musical—a dark coes to be fun to watch—isThe , and the walk through don Atlanta as the street ht is completely atmospheric

Not that we need atmosphere

We’re creating our own atmosphere

All day long, Lark and I have been drifting through the world in a protective bubble Nothing bad can trouble or touch us Not traffic, not the hellish parking situation that led to paying forty dollars to park in a hotel’s garage, not the four-year-old behind us at the play who kept kicking our seats, not even the thunderstor the sky dark just as we’re about to head back to Bliss River

We’re too happy, too tipsy onus down