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p; “Your heart broke, Guinevere There is no way to fast-forward or avoid the pain You must accept that first before you can heal You and your art will be better for it If you don’t believe s all about it”

I laughed He was right, because the ht about the last feeeks, the h

I had forgotten that just because your heart breaks doesn’t mean the world comes to an end I wasn’t better I didn’t think I would be better for a while, but I wasn’t horrible either, which made me sort of proud

Chapter Six

Baptism By Fire

Eli

“Look to your right,” I told the little girl with a bright pink bow tied in her hair as she sat in front of me She wasn’t sure which way I ht

Grinning, she nodded, her brown eyes shifting

“Now look to your left Okay, thank you Molly You have pretty eyes”

“I get them from my mommy,” she replied happily

I would have called her father a lucky man, but he only seemed more depressed at her words “My interns here will draw some blood from you while I talk to your dad, okay? If it hurts, tell o back to school”

“Wait, what?” one of the interns whispered behind me

I nodded to her father to follow me outside

“Is she all right?” he asked as soon as I closed the door

“Mr Wesley, how long has Molly’s eye been twitching like that?”