Chapter 7BRYSON
My heart raced as I neared the school. I had another practice, so I needed to rely on my car to get me to school. I wouldn’t rely on Bennett for this. I wasn’t the one behind the wheel at the time of the accident, so my irrational fear of driving was just that.
“Just like Corbin’s irrational fear of my rejection.” His birthday gift sat next to me, and as I thought about it, I wished I had brought it with me to the race. “Maybe I could’ve changed things?” I shook my head. I couldn’t think like that. If I did it would only make me upset with him again, and I didn’t want to be upset with him. I wanted to share our last few days together in a way that we both wanted. We couldn’t go backwards I knew that, so we had to take what we could.
I pulled into my spot and wasn’t surpr
