Knox:
A couple days turned into two weeks before I even noticed.
Time didn’t work the same out here. It stretched out. Made you slow down. Left you time to Breathe.
Viv and I… we slipped into a routine. Not something either of us was used to, not something I ever thought I’d crave. But damn if it didn’t come easy. Easier than I expected.
We slept in. Drank too much diner coffee. Walked to town when it wasn’t too hot. She’d steal a candy bar from the gas station just for the thrill of it, then hand it to a kid on the sidewalk with a wink.
Every night we’d eat at the diner. Not because there weren’t other options —hell, there weren’t— but because Nora treated us like we belonged. Like we’d always been part of this place, just two more people burned out by life looking to cool off in the
