As the two of us walked towards the waterhole, a few of the boys began to whistle, as I heard one of them holler out, “Damn Mazie.” Making me turn to look at her with a smile.
“See, I told you that you look smoking in that.”
Mazie’s cheeks instantly blushed, but I could see that the attention she was getting was giving her a new confidence, one that she needed and deserved. Even though I had no plans on staying here after the school year was over, it didn’t mean that I couldn’t have a friend, and if I could help her see her true worth before the school year was over, that was exactly what I was going to do. Who knows, she might even want to leave this god-forsaken town with me.
As we stepped to the edge of the waterhole, my eyes spotted Cash returning to the party, but thankfully he d
