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“Is it going to kill you?”
“Then answer when you’re ready.”
“You don’t know Gloria Da Silva. She’ll call a SWAT team eventually if I worry her enough.”
“I ran away from home at seventeen once, and she convinced the poli...
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“I will not lose my daughter.”
“Well, that sounds like a tomorrow problem. And you know what we say to those?”
“Not today.”
I wanted to know about her, share our problems.
“I don’t want to take advantage of your overly helpful nature.” “Well, I’m not that generous,”
“I do have ulterior motives, remember?”
“Your ulterior motives involve getting me to heal from the complex trauma of an injury that’s haunted me for five years. Somehow, I’m not sure even the most selfish reason would categorize you as a red flag here,”
“I guess we’ll find out.”
People weren’t forgotten just because they weren’t present.
Pain, anxiety, sickness—a hot bath cured it every time.
For some reason, this girl could say nearly anything, and it felt like the world was lifting off my shoulders.
“Grab all your stuff,”
“Why?”
“Just do it, Nia.”
“Do not play with my heart right now, Nia.”
“I will move mountains for the black beans.”
someone who was quickly becoming the best friend I’d never asked for. The one I had always needed.
I didn’t need to question my sexuality just because I wanted to spend time with a girl. I’d spent time with plenty of girls my entire life.
“If I had a child, I would sell it for plantains,”
Lonnie’s abrasive use of her full name was startling, but the realization that Harvey had not been her first name was somehow even more shocking.
“Do… Do you feel bad, Lonnie?”
“Of course I feel bad, you little shit. You mean the world to me, regardless of… whatever that brain of yours tells you.”
“I didn’t tell you because it wasn’t your problem.”
“But it’s Harvey’s problem?”
“No, I didn’t tell her. She was just at the right place at the right time.”
“You’re spending a lot of time together. I hope you’re not here just to distract one of my best skaters and then leave another trail of wreckage behind you when you leave again.”
“I don’t even know what you’re trying to say.”
“Nadine’s fucked with her head enough. Harvey doesn’t need you using her for whatever bisexual awakening you’ve waited this long to have.”
“I’m not fucking with anyone’s head, Lonnie,” I
“Does your concern come as someone who cares about her, or as someone who cares about winning on Saturday? Have you sent in the bets for the week yet?”
“I don’t do that anymore.”
“That’s why they left, isn’t it? It wasn’t about me leaving; it was about them finding out the truth, wasn’t it? Does this new batch of skaters know?”
“I don’t keep secrets anymore, Nia. Why don’t you worry about your own problems instead of mine? Seems like you’ve got plenty of them.”
“I will literally sleep on your bathroom floor before I take your bed away from you. Don’t even try it.”
“Cathrine?”
“Never Cathrine,”
“Sometimes Cath, or Cat.”
“Kitty?”
“If a girl is calling me Kitty, she better be making me purr.”
“You don’t have to keep taking care of me.
“Now that my stitches are out, I need to fix whatever this is.”
“Can you help me?” “You committing to the look?”
“Wash it off. I’ll go get your bags out of the car and put them in my room so you can change.”
Was I using her? Not intentionally, and certainly not maliciously.
“Are you leaving for you, or are you leaving for your mother?”
“I’m not ready to answer that,”
