Chapter 13

Two things didn’t happen later that morning:

I didn’t tell Joe about Cora’s phone call. If she wanted to mention any part of the conversation to him, that would be her decision.

And my arrival at school in Joe’s truck did not go unnoticed.

Heads turned and people were starting over to him when I got out. Their mouths dropped, and everything erupted in chaos.

That was an exaggeration, but with my fragile sense of reality lately, it seemed like chaos....