CHAPTER 47
Jake’s probably at home worrying about me right now, but I can’t help that. He’s always going to worry about me. Said so the day we got married.
I left the trailer in a kind of a whirlwind. Told him I had to go to the store to buy some tampons. It was the only excuse I could think of. Instead of heading to Walmart, though, I drove three miles in the opposite direction, where I’ve been parked for the past ten minutes, trying to work up the nerve to walk up to the door.
There’s no use asking what I’m doing here. Have you ever felt so compelled to do something you couldn’t even explain it to yourself? Maybe that’s why the salmon always travel up those streams to spawn. They probably don’t have a clue why they’re doing it. They just know that if they don’t, something inside them
