El Speed used to play this song by David Wilcox. One line in it stuck in my head: "You can get what’s second-best, but it’s hard to get enough."
The way I saw it, that was the essence of addiction.
So what would be something Emmett could reach for inside himself rather that outside himself? Could climbing mountains give him enough confidence in himself, in his own ability to accomplish something, to point at least one of his feet toward recovery?
Margot wasn’t home yet by the time I went to bed. I heard her come in later, because I was still awake—all those issues and questions bouncing around in my head.
It made a change from obsessing on Drew.
All that week, it seemed that every time I went anywhere other than work or home, I saw Drew, or I saw his van. Sometimes I was sure he saw m
