Mortal
If he doesn’t want to sit with me, why did he invite me to have lunch with him?
Heavy footsteps sound on the wood floor, and then Heather drops into the chair across from me. She seems to like making as much noise as possible wherever she goes. Maybe it’s her greeting card.
Or her warning call.
I’m not here to make enemies, though, so I take a deep breath and try this again. “Hi, Heather.”
She looks down her nose at me. “You really cleaned Goodwill out, didn’t you?”
The few others left at the table–who haven’t followed Gregory–laugh in appreciation. The faded sweatshirt was my dad’s. Yeah, it doesn’t fit, but trailing my fingers over its hem comforts me, and… and…
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