Chapter Fourteen
New Year’s Day 1987
Beck
“Well, girl, it’s just me and you … again,” Beck said to Morticia. Beck never called Janey like he said he would. He realized he needed some time to think, to grow, to be alone.
It was New Year’s Day and he was up at the crack of dawn. He sat on his couch, in silence, with his head in his hand. Due to nerves he spent more than half the night awake, thinking about the big mistake he made by dating Yvonne and hurting her. She didn’t deserve that, he thought. She also doesn’t deserve me being with her while I still have it bad for Janey. But do I give her another chance and risk getting hurt … again? I know I said I’d be her friend, but I CAN’T possibly be her friend when what I really want is to be her boyfriend.
“Meow.” Morticia jumped up on Be
