CHAPTER 24
“So you’re thinking of leaving Mel’s, huh?”
I’ve got the heat in the house on low even though the night’s thirty-five degrees outside. I haven’t told Justin I’ve already left her place. He doesn’t know I’m spending Saturday night at my mom’s empty house. Thank God she didn’t think to change the security code. And that my brother took that job on the East Coast. I don’t want to talk to anyone now.
Not even Justin, much as I hate to admit it.
It’s not that I think he would judge me. I’m not embarrassed to tell him I couldn’t even keep a babysitting job for a single month. That I have no other recourse than to sneak back into my childhood home, haunted as it is with memories. What I don’t want him to know is that I haven’t gotten out of bed since this morning. That I might not
