It’s amazing how agonizingly slow ten minutes can take to go by. Finally there started to be some small businesses, and then a Wendy’s. Beautiful, wonderful, Wendy’s.
We piled out of the van, Jaden still not talking. Why was he being so quiet? He might be a ghost, but he didn’t have to act like one.
“Nina?” I asked. They were taking too long with the girls.
“Wait one second, I’ll go with you.”
I waited a second. “Nina. Please.”
“Rebecca, you got this?” Nina asked.
“Yes, go.”
Nina threaded her arm through mine and we started toward the place that was about to save my life. My stomach roared with impatience. We powerwalked across the driveway. The smell of hot food hit me in the gut, making me even more ravenous. I wouldn’t have thought that was possible a second ago.
We walked in an
