Chapter 34. |Disorder and Dislikes|

Day 23.

I was officially a stalker. The stars twinkled merrily, brightening up the night's hot and unfriendly air as I sat still in the yard's overgrown rose bushes, watching Blake's home from afar. Again.

I had been here for at least, thirty minutes now, sitting stiffly and unmoving, all my muscles had gone stiff and were screaming in ache. My purpose for stalking his house at past nine was pretty straightforward.

I was waiting for his mom to come home.

Blake had once mentioned that she came home from work very late in the night and I was banking on it. I pressed my phone, the low light illuminating my face and I checked the time.

9:17pm.

She should be home anytime now, the number eight on my hand was a good enough of a prompt to stay here in these bushes all night as any other. A black Camry drove down the street and I almost lunged out of the bushes in ant