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His question confused her, and she glanced at him again before returning her attention to the Zippo. “Because that’s what friends do.” She looked him in the eye then, challenging him to deny a friendship.
His gaze was intense, his dark eyes locked with her grey ones, and she watched as he swallowed, his Adams apple moving slowly.
“Yeah,” was all he said.
It was enough.
It was more than enough.
It was everything.
***
“Iknow it was hardon you,” Justin broke the silence between them causing Katrina to turn her head in his direction. They’d only been on the road for 15 minutes and she already could feel the tension rising as they rode towards their destination.
“Hard?” she asked. “It devastated me. You know that.”
“Yeah, well it devastated me, too. He was my best friend. I know it’s not the same, but...” His voice trailed off and he shifted in his seat, picking up speed as the limit raised.
“No, it isn’t. And he was my best friend, too. Aside from you.”
Justin reached over with his right hand and took her left in his, giving it a light squeeze. “We’ll get to the bottom of this, okay? We’ll find out why he left, why he came back. Whatever it was that made him leave, it had to be huge. I know how much he loved you.”
“You don’t hurt someone like that when you love them.”
“Trina, we don’t know much of what he went through before we met him. Just that he’d been in foster care since he was, what, eight?”
“Six,” she corrected him.
“Maybe he’d had enough of Emily,” Justin joked, never fond of Katrina’s closest current friend. “And maybe that’s Judith’s problem, too. You never seem to go anywhere without her.”
“Judith is friends with Emily, too.”
Justin squeezed Katrina’s hand. “Maybe just come over without her sometime. Or without Timothy.”
“Why do you never like my boyfriends?”
“I liked Lorenzo.”
Katrina stifled a sob as tears threatened yet again. “This is a bad idea.”
“This is the best idea we’ve got until he wakes up and starts talking.” He locked their pinkies without ever taking his eyes off the road. “Pinky swear.”
With another sniffle, she nodded. “Pinky swear.”
