Night of shades
She’d like to tell Jake about it—Jake with his very sympathetic eyes and his sincere interest.
No, I can’t tell him about all of this insanity. But maybe I can tell him about the legend.
“I was just thinking about a story my nana told me,” Lauren said. “A kind of legend about Smiths Hollow.” “What, the legend of the man who saved the town by opening a meat-processing plant?” Jake said.
They’d reached the hamburger booth by then, and Jake ordered two cheeseburgers, a large fry, and two Cokes.
“Are you going to eat both of those burgers? They’re really big,” Lauren said. “Me and David split one earlier. Of course, we’d already had a funnel cake and cotton candy by then.”
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