Chapter 3
In a perfect world, everything would’ve gone back to normal. Ronnie would stop limping with the brace, they’d laugh and wrestle and fall asleep sated and spent like they did as teenagers, and Jim would be able to look in the mirror without a shred of disappointment.
But the world wasn’t perfect. People got hurt. People became afraid. People learned things about themselves that would forever change them.
One day working in the yard didn’t wave a magic wand and heal either one of them. All it did was open the door to the possibility.
When Jim drove Ronnie home that night, he waited for Ronnie to bring up seeing each other again. But Mr. Mayer opened the front door as soon as Jim pulled up, frowning down at the curb like he’d kept Ronnie out after curfew, and Ronnie had scuttled
