Next Summer, Find Me If You Can
My fingers trembled as I picked up each shard, my mind racing far faster than my hands could move.
Silverlake.
Why was he going back to Silverlake?
Nothing about this made sense, and the nonsense of it terrified me more than if it had made perfect, predictable sense.
I swept the broken pieces into a small bag, stood, smoothed my hair back into place, and turned to face them both with a smile stitched carefully across my mouth.
"I'm so sorry," I said. "When I heard Silverlake, I just remembered a friend of mine who went through something terrible there. It caught me off guard for a second."