Chapter 12: Delete

I stepped in front of Elliott before I had finished deciding to.

I was wearing a borrowed gray skirt over my jeans and one sock, and I held my arms out like a crossing guard.

"Don't," I said. "Caleb, I swear, if that goes out, I will never bring you water again."

Caleb looked at me, at the skirt, and at Elliott standing behind me in his.

His face did not change at all.

"Move," he said.

"No."

"Sabrina."

"You'll have to post it through me."

He sighed, long and hard, and his thumb moved on the screen.

I flinched.

"Deleted," Caleb said, and turned the phone around so we could see it.

The screen showed a folder with fourteen photos in it, and a red button.

He pressed the button, and the folder went empty.

Nobody moved.

"I came to do that," Caleb said.

He rubbed his eyes with two fingers.

"I should have done it a week ago."

Elliott took a slow breath.

"You came all the way here to delete them," he said.

"They were a rotten thing to keep."

"They were."

"I'm not good at apologies." Caleb put the phone away. "That was one."

Elliott stepped out from behind me, and I saw that his hands were shaking a little.

He took a moment to straighten his glasses.

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