Chapter 15

Gran was horrified. “In the dark? What if you’d fallen in? You might have drowned.”

“The coolness of the water would have been better. I wasn’t worried about it.”

“Sally would have been,” Gran said as she came over and sat in the rocking chair. “She was quite upset. She wants to apologize.”

I shook my head. “Apologize? She doesn’t need to apologize.”

“She thinks she does.”

I just sat there.

“At least listen to her,” Gran urged me. “She listened to you.”

I let out a soft laugh. “I don’t think she heard me, though.”

“She heard. She didn’t know how to respond.”

I turned and looked at Gran. “Did she tell you what we fought about?”

“She tried not to, but I guessed.”

I was astounded. “You guessed?!”

“I’ve known since you were little,” Gran said softly. “You can’t hide it.”

I was confused. “Howdid you know?”

“I have eyes in the back of my head.”

I wasn’t ready to joke about it. “No. Really.”