Chapter Fourteen:

| Hollis |

“Promise me you’re good to drive home?” Whitney leaned into the window of Hollis’ vehicle a half hour later. After reluctantly pulling themselves away from each other, they’d gone back inside to finish their food and tried to act like nothing happened. All the while Kendra didn’t say anything else save for a half assed excuse to disappear into her bedroom, leaving the two girls alone downstairs. Not that Hollis was surprised. It’s hard to come back from such an intense conversation and discuss something light like the weather, or what’s new on television. If it were her in Kendra’s position, she probably would have done the same thing. Shortly thereafter, Hollis thanked Whitney for the meal and they walked back out to her car. It was an unspoken agreement between them both that she should go. Every second they hung around the dinning room just felt more and more uncomfortable, and there was already so much to th