CHAPTER 23

• She warbled on and on and I smiled and gave her a high five on everything she said, that helped until I lifted my face to see him standing on the doorway, my eyes watered.
• Heaven knows I tried so hard to hold the tears back but I remember vividly our first time being intimate... he's my first love after all.
• "Nancy, come here" he called his younger sister, she ran to him at once while I bent my head between my knees to hide my tearful eyes.