They Left Me Behind on the Road Trip, So I Got on a Better Ride novel · Chapter 16 of 24

Chapter 16: The Twelfth Frame

He meant it.

That was the terrible thing about Sawyer. He always meant it.

From that breakfast on, he was perfectly polite to me, and he stayed exactly six feet away.

At Horseshoe Bend that evening he stood at the far end of the rim with his grandmother.

I stood at the other end with my tripod.

The river curled around the red rock a thousand feet below us, green as a bottle.

A couple in wedding clothes was having their pictures taken right on the edge. The bride's veil kept blowing into the photographer's face.

Everyone was watching the bride.

I watched the groom's mother.

She was sitting on a rock behind them, holding the bride's bouquet so it wouldn't blow away.

She had both eyes shut tight, because she was terrified of heights.

She was smiling anyway.

Seven.

My dad would have loved her.

When I packed up, Dot was waiting by the truck, leaning on the fender.

"You two," she said, "are like a pair of magnets somebody glued in backward."

"We agreed."

"I know. I watched you agree over a waffle. It was the saddest thing I've ever seen, and I was at Woodstock."

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