He Asked Me Out to Get Back at Her, I Gave Him a Rulebook Instead novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: The Roof
He woke up when the door clicked.
He sat up fast and the coffee sacks slid onto the floor.
"The manager said I could stay," he said. "If I water."
"You don't know how to water."
"I've watched you do it for three months."
I looked at the space heater by his feet.
It wasn't plugged in.
"You'll freeze."
"I didn't want to blow the breaker. It's on the same circuit as the propagation mats."
I plugged the heater in anyway and moved the mats to the other outlet.
He watched me do it without saying anything.
I went back out into the snow and didn't look back.
He slept in the greenhouse office for eight nights.
He watered every morning before Jess got there.
She told me he did it right, which from Jess was a medal.
On December nineteenth I took the bus home to Scranton for winter break.
My dad picked me up at the station and hugged me so hard my hat came off again.
He didn't ask about Linc.
He'd seen the video.
Everybody in Scranton had seen the video.
On Saturday morning somebody knocked on our front door at seven.
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