Stepping out for my date with Susan gives me all the time I need to finally think about everything that has happened between Cole and me.The door clicks shut behind me and as I start walking, my steps slow, the evening air brushes against my skin, cool, My mind, traitor that it is, drifts back to the night beforeAfter helping him last time, hearing the window shuffling, mom somehow crept back into her room before I even made it upstairs, that alone was suspicious, she hadn’t nitpicked or interrogated me on my way about where I’d been, who I’d been with or why I was late.And because she didn’t attack like I expected, I didn’t realize just how exhausted I was until I took a quick shower. The water had barely warmed before my body started giving up on me, the tension melting off my shoulders in heavy, my limbs felt boneless, my thoughts sluggish, I remember leaning my forehead against the tiled wall, eyes closed, breathing slow and deep, as if the steam itself was holding me upright.
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