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“Anyone can lead an ordinary life, child,” she’d said to me one lazy afternoon. “But the best adventures are reserved for the ones brave enough to be extraordinary.”
“If you were mine, Ruby Grace, your dreams wouldn’t come second to anything.”
But there on my porch, in the soft, cool, Tennessee summer night, those rules didn’t seem to apply.
Our breaths met in the space between, hot and heavy with words we wouldn’t say.
My only response was one middle finger thrown my way over her shoulder.
And I couldn’t figure out why when his lips were on me, I was still thinking about Noah.
And I just sat there, hands on the steering wheel, eyes on my passenger seat, and heart somewhere down the road with a girl who didn’t even realize she had it.
I’d sleep, and maybe — just maybe — I’d wake on a day where I got to keep him forever.
I watched her take the left, watched her stop at the stop sign down the road, watched her take the left that led out of town. And when I couldn’t see her taillights anymore and she was really gone, I let the first tear fall.
More than a thousand miles couldn’t separate us — not really. She was still here with me, and I knew she took me with her, too.
