Everything already aches and I know I’m no where in the world prepared to hear what she has to say. I have a dreadful, overwhelming instinct of where this is leading and I don’t want to go there.
“Remember what Zach said the first day. Never mind, he said that it’ll be a day worth remembering. And he meant it.
You shouldn’t have slapped him. He’s Zach Hayden, darling.”
No, this is not happening. I stand frozen and the fear grows on me like a cloud, blackening around me. My eyes are wide as saucers, and stinging with burning unshed tears. I part my lips, trying to inhale but none of body parts co-operate right now.
I need to breathe. Alanna, you need to breathe.
“He had it all figured out, really. Ooh, and told me everything. The brownie was a bit too much I thought but he said cho
