I Was Meant for More novel · Chapter 12 of 16
Chapter 12: The Freezer
I closed the notebook on her finger.
Not hard.
Just enough that she had to pull her hand back.
"Every notebook he scanned," I said. "Not every page I wrote."
For a second, her dimples slipped.
Then she laughed and walked away.
I watched her go and tried to figure out what I had just meant.
I thought about it for the rest of the semester.
In December, I took the bus home for winter break.
My mother picked me up at the station in Columbus and cried in the parking lot again.
"You got taller," she said.
"I didn't."
"You look taller."
Millbrook was the same.
Christmas lights on Main Street.
The Fairbanks Realty sign in the window, with Marianne's face smiling on it.
On my second morning home, I walked to the diner on Route 9 for coffee.
Trent was in a booth by the window.
He was wearing a Cedar County Community College hoodie.
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