Chapter 10

I didn’t want to push or make things worse, especially when we’d begun building a friendship. So I told myself I’d leave it for now, and if it didn’t blow over or it seemed to come between us, then I’d deal with it later.

But somehow, my roll didn’t taste quite as good anymore. 4

The Christmas movie marathon, interrupted by walks for Pippa, kept my mind off Jason’s weird goodbye the evening before. I texted him a “good morning,” which he replied to, but neither of us said anything else. I knew he had to work half a day because it had been mentioned in the group thread days before, so I didn’t want to bother him while he was busy.

I was just relieved he’d responded at all.