His 47 Seconds of Silence Cost Him Everything novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: No Pause
I looked at him in the dark.
I thought about all the questions I could ask.
Where were you on Tuesdays. What did you mean by that. Why didn't you say anything.
I didn't need any of them.
"Do you love me?" I said.
"Yes."
He said it before I'd finished the word me.
I lay there with my mouth open.
"That's zero," I said. "That was zero seconds."
"I know." He tucked my hair behind my ear. "I've been sitting on it since the batting cages. It was ready."
The end-of-season cookout was the first Saturday in August, at the pavilion behind the third-base dugout.
The district trophy sat in the middle of the picnic table on a paper plate.
Mike ran the grill in his gray cap and an apron that said KISS THE PLUMBER.
Jen had bought it and dared him to wear it.
He wore it.
Jen ran the second grill.
"They're blackened," she said, holding up a hot dog that looked like a stick. "It's a style."
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