Chapter Sixteen

Jozette looked down at her laptop and frowned. She’d been trying to work on her History of Maccon City, but for some reason the only words that came to her were utterly ridiculous.

Or were they?

She wondered as she opened a new document. There’d been a lull in customers after the morning rush, and Crescent Moon Books was blissfully quiet just then. She had an hour till story time, so why not sit down and write?

Mind made up, Jozette did something she’d never thought possible. She trusted herself and let her imagination run wild. A smile played on the corner of her mouth as she wrote page after page of a fantastical romantic adventure.

Her parents would be horrified, she thought with a laugh that soon had her frowning. Dammit. She did not want to think of them. It had been days since she’d last seen them. Jozette had no choice but to go back to their house to gather her clothes and the few things she’d not placed in storage.