Crossed Fingers

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Chapter 13

 

I saw her scars up close.

 

She let me touch them.

 

She looked down.

 

I thought she was crying.

 

I hug her.

 

She hugs me back.

 

It reminds me of last night.

She let’s go.

 

She walks away.

 

She doesn’t look back.

 

I wish she would.

I don’t eat lunch.

 

I think about her scars.

 

They look like burns.

 

The really scary kind.

I see her pass my locker at the end of school.

 

I follow her.

 

She doesn’t notice.

 

I follow her outside the school.

 

I go to my car and pull out.

I see her on the sidewalk.

 

She’s walking.

 

Her fingers are crossed.

 

I follow her.

 

She notices.

 

She blushes.

 

It looks cute.

I tell her to come in the car

 

She says she doesn’t accept rides from strangers.

 

I tell her I’m not a stranger.

 

She smiles.

I like it.

 

I pull over and she gets in.

 

She asks me to take her somewhere.

 

I ask where

 

She says anywhere