Danny
"Are you okay?"
I know Hayden means well, but I'm so sick of people asking if I'm okay. What is okay? Are any of us ever going to be okay again after what we've been through? "Are you?"
She shrinks back as if I've hit her. "You don't have to be ugly."
"I'm not, but I don't feel like reliving what happened. It's only been a couple of days. You've got to give me time to process. One minute things are good, the next I'm back up there," I admit.
"Will you tell me about it?" She asks softly.
"It's hard." I swallow against the hard knot in my throat. "Watching what happened to Gauge, it's never going to go away. I see it when I close my eyes," I admit. "I'm not sleeping well and I don't know how to get past it."
She rolls so that she's on top of me. "Let me help you forget. Let me g
