Chapter Eleven: Blank Space

Blank Space by Taylor Swift

Autumn POV

A crease formed on his forehead. “Won’t your parents be looking for you?”

“Pfftt,” I snorted which was not really graceful but who cared anyway. “Even if I got kidnapped by an alien and everyone in the whole world knew, they’d be the last people to know. Trust me.” I left that sentence hanging, waiting for him to ask more just like most people did. They always wanted to know, always curious to dig further because they sensed something juicy, something they could gossip about later.

But apparently, not Tyler Vincent. He was simply quiet until he stole a glance sideways and asked, “So, where do you want me to drop you off?”

I did not even need to think twice when I answered, “Jess’s place.”

We had stopped at the side of the road while he was putting Jess’ address into his phone GPS. I took the moment to pull out Abby’s small envelope. I hadn’t known whether to curse it for making me go back to school or to be thankful for it because now I k