CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - Reflections* 1 *
Some things you know, some things you think you know, and some things you just spend the rest of your life trying to forget.
Lily knew she could live forever and never forget the smell of popcorn rattling through the summer dust. She knew she would never forget the taste of Raoul’s sweet flesh. She would never forget the sound of the carousel and the feel of all those hungry eyes upon her. And she would never forget the clotted sour aftertaste of sixteen tubs of premium ice cream.
She lay on the couch like a beached whale, gazing through the dirty haze of her front screen window, trying to look through her own hazy reflection. She stared down at the town she would never be a part of.
That was something else she knew.
She was an outsider.
If she li
