CHAPTER 35 “And that’s why Jesus came to die on the cross, to take away the punishment for our sins,” Grandma Lucy told the nurse in the Garfield scrubs who was getting ready to start her stitches. Brad excused himself. He had never been too comfortable with needles, and Grandma Lucy seemed to be doing just fine without him. County was a small hospital, but he raced down the hallway as fast as he’d start his morning jog. He had to find Megan. It was probably silly for him to get this worked up about a girl who had hurt him so deeply, but that was all in the past. People could change, couldn’t they? Brad thought about the time he and Megan spent together the night before she left Vermont to head to that school in Costa Rica. She was the first girl he had ever kissed. But apparently, the