“A Is for Angry” The Encyclopedia of an Ohio Girl in Love, by Mallory EvansWhen Mallory Evans crunched across the field and up the hill, she didn’t look back at the little yellow house. If she had been truly escaping it, she might have, so that she could have the satisfaction of watching it vanish.
But if she looked back, the house would still be there, and so would what was waiting for her inside of it.
She walked away from it that night not to escape, but to have a reason to hold John Lake’s hand all the way across the field and up the hill. His big hand around hers, his thumb against her pulse—
Well. It was enough to bring what was waiting for her in the little yellow house into balance.
When they approached the dark sliding-glass door at the back of John’s house, he brought her han
