Chapter 16
For the next couple of weeks, Evan tried to pretend everything was going to be okay. He went to classes, did his homework, did his best to stay quiet at home and out of his father’s way. He walked to and from school with Anne, and neither of them spoke of her dreams or the medication he was sure she’d started taking.
Even when he saw the dark circles under her eyes, same as when the dreams were so bad before, Evan pretended.
He revived his habit of talking about nothing to fill in the spaces when Anne withdrew into silence. That was returning to a kind of normal, right? The way things had been before.
Back when his mother was still alive.
His grip on the delusion, fragile to begin with, nearly slipped a couple of times when Anne seemed to disappear right in front of him. Sh
