Chapter Sixteen
Max
“I can’t believe it. Jude really likes me.” I whispered to the night. “He wants to see me again.”
It was silent on Monument Avenue, and I realized with a start that the bus service was about to stop for the night. I jogged the two blocks back to Broad Street and prayed I wasn’t too late to catch the bus. Uber was still an option, but if their outrageous price surge was still in effect, I’d rather walk back to Southside.
There was very little traffic this late at night. I stepped into the middle of the street hoping to see a bus heading in my direction and was disappointed to see none. A drop of rain fell on my forehead and I moved to the shelter at the bus stop and opened my phone to see when the next bus was coming.
“Shit.” My normal bus was now out of service. Th
