Chapter Twelve
"So...how are you holding up?"
The Tuesday morning Elise's parents were due to arrive home found Lucy sitting in a very familiar seat at the campus café, across the table looking into a pair of very familiar anxious blue eyes.
Still well before the majority of the campus was up for classes, the café was as empty as it was on the late nights the two of them had spent there after Lucy's barn shifts or riding lessons earlier in the semester. And much to Lucy's surprise, it had been Elise who has suggested they meet at the café that morning in the first place. She'd originally said to Lucy over text that doing so might help her get her mind off of everything...but one look at the sight of her worried girlfriend told Lucy that it was going to be very difficult to keep Elise's
