Chapter 10Charles found traveling on public transportation wasn’t too difficult, although it did take three quarters of an hour to arrive at Brookeville. For the most part, that had to do with waiting for the next bus, so he didn’t think he had anything to complain about.
Beyond going to baseball games, he’d never been to Brookeville in the two years he’d lived in the vicinity; leaving the university campus for any reason was something else Marie frowned upon, and when he was a minor, he’d had no choice in the matter. Now, however, he planned to make lemonade out of the lemons his mother had handed him and enjoy his freedom to explore the area.
When he stepped down from the bus, he gazed around in surprise. Brookeville was a larger town than Charlestown. It not only had the indoor mall t
