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“He’s gone, baby. I’m so sorry. I’m such an idiot. I probably just made everything worse,” I sighed.
“I can’t be mad at you for trying to protect me. But please don’t say anything like that to any of them again. Especially since you just advertised who your father is. I wouldn’t put it past them to try to hurt me at school,” she sniffled.
“I won’t. I promise,” I assured her. “Do you want to leave?”
“No. Arrowhead’s a huge place. We probably won’t even see them. Tucker’s taken enough from me. I’m not letting him take today too. I need it too much.”
“How do you do that?”
“Do what?”
“Act like none of this gets to you.”
“Oh, it gets to me,” she sighed. “But after two years, it’s just normal. And now I finally have someone helping me to make good memories, so the bad ones aren’t the only thing I think about anymore.”
I couldn’t even begin to come up with a response to that, so instead, I kissed her with everything I had. And I vowed then and there to help her make as many good memories as I could, so maybe, just maybe, she could eventually be free from the ghosts of her past.
