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LEVI
Lil held my hand while I drove her to the airport. We didn’t talk much, but when had we ever? She knew my heartache, and I could literally feel her excitement to jet across the country.
While Lil didn’t exactly have her parents’ blessing, she had mine. For the foreseeable future, she would room with her cousin in California who’d already gotten a job lined up for her.
Lucky girl.
I’d yet to find something, that entire week’s searching fruitless. It was like fate blocked me from moving on.
Zeke had left.
Lil was leaving.
And I had eight days before the time at my parents’ ran out.
“What am I going to do?” I heard myself ask.
Lil squeezed my fingers. “You could come with me.”
I snorted a laugh. “That wouldn’t be freedom to start over, Lil.”
“You told me yourself that seei
