Chapter 13: Jarr + Ryan
Approximately five-eighths of a mile later Ryan slipped into a set of thick bushes next to the lake, crossing over private property, and took a piss. Jarr thought about joining him, which would have prompted an intimate moment between the two in public, but he decided to stay on the sand-covered beach, next to the lake. As Ryan took care of his business, Jarr found a long piece of driftwood shaped like a femur. He held one end of the stick and positioned the opposite end in the sand. Within a few moments he wrote JARR + RYAN and circled the two names in a giant heart. Afterward, he tossed the leg of driftwood aside and called out, “Ryan, what’s going on in there?”
“You should come and see!”
Jarr couldn’t. The lakeside property was owned by Melinda Hovington, Snow
