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Chapter 23 - Walk with me
“Are you in hurry to go somewhere?” I ask Golden when we leave the restaurant. I really enjoyed having breakfast with her. I had to convince her why I’m paying for our meal but other than that everything went better than I expected.
“Not really, did you have something in mind?” She asks already smiling.
“I thought we would take a walk. I want to show you something.” I say and she nods. We walk up further the street and turn right. Its late morning now and a lot of people are out now.
The street we’re on now is quite busy, we can’t walk leisurely side by side so I offer her my hand and she takes it without hesitation.
I guide her down the street. We walk for about a minute until we get to a backyard with a small gate. I open it and lead her inside. We walk down a small path into this incredible lily garden. The garden is filled with lilies, it’s like a carpet of yellow, pink, white, purple a
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A week later“I don’t get why you hang out with those boys. They’re so basic.” Amara says through the receiver. I just got home from school, I’m exhausted and I don’t have time for this.I place my bag on the bedroom floor and flop onto my bed.“Those boys have names. Leo and Zach.” I say irritated. I should just end this call right now. There’s no reason why I’m listening to this.“Who cares Golden? You think people care but no one cares.” She says and I sigh in exhaustion. The gag is, she think I care what people think.“I care Amara.” I say almost screaming into the phone. I lie on my back and look at the ceiling.“Whatever this is, it needs to end. I can’t stand for this; we’ve watched this go on for too long you need to snap out of it. Come back and we can hang out again. And if you want I can talk to Cole a
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