They Left Me Behind on the Road Trip, So I Got on a Better Ride novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: The Bench in Torrey
I didn't take them right away.
I looked at the truck across the lot, and then at him.
"How?"
"Your mother had the bill of sale in a drawer," he said. "She gave me the buyer's name in June. He was a rancher outside Loveland, and he didn't want to sell."
"So how did you get it?"
"I drove up every Saturday for eleven weeks and helped him fix fence." He held up his hands. There was a healed scrape across one palm. "On the twelfth Saturday he said anybody that stubborn could have it."
"You fixed fence."
"Badly. In dress shoes."
I laughed, and it came out wet.
"I didn't touch the tailgate," he said. "Your mother said the dent was from your tenth birthday."
"I backed into a post. Dad let me drive it around the church lot."
"She told me." He put the keys in my hand and closed my fingers around them. "It's yours, Frankie. Nobody has to drive you anywhere."
The whole parking lot was watching us.
Dot, on her curb, had put down her pen.
I kissed him in front of all of Kanab.
The band started up again, the same song for the fifth time.
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