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Chapter Seventeen | Rain Rain, Go Away, Say You Really Want To Stay
◦◦ Sawyer ◦◦
Fifteen Years Ago, Naples Florida
“Oh shoot, I better get home. My moms gonna kill me if I’m late again. Bye, Sawyer!”
I looked up from the chalk drawing Chelsea and I had been working on together for the last four hours and frowned with confusion. “Really? But the street lights haven’t even come on yet!”
She gave me an apologetic smile and swung her bright pink Mismo backpack over a shoulder. Brunette curls began bouncing as she briskly walked away from where I still knelt on the sidewalk. “I’ll see if I can stay longer tomorrow, and we’ll finish it. Okay?”
Well I guess that wouldn’t be too bad, I’m getting hungry anyway and mom promised she’d be home to cook tonight.
I stood up with a hopeful half smile and cupped my hands over my mouth so Chelsea could hear me better. “I’ll hold you to it! Same place, after school.”
“Yep!” My friend quipped back with that carefree wave
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