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“You just wanted to see her, didn’t you?” she teased.
“Maybe.” He didn’t bother lying. “But I brought you your favorite pizza…so that counts for something, right?”
“I suppose so,” she said as she led the way to the break room.
Lock came up to me, seeing the paperwork in my hand.
“You’re joining the team?” he asked hopefully.
I smiled and grabbed a pen off the desk.
“I’m totally joining the team.”
Chapter 7
Some days I wake up and think ‘I got this.’ Other days I wake up and think, ‘Fuck my life.’
-Lock’s secret thoughts
Lock
The storm clouds seemed to come out of nowhere.
One second, I was running at the track, pushing through my fourth mile, and the next I looked up and the black clouds were rolling in so fast that it’d completely covered the track between one lap and the next.
The lap after that the wind started to blow, and I looked toward my bike, wondering if I should leave before the storm hit.
Then I decided, fuck it.
It felt fucking amazing, the wind blowing in the cold air that finally canceled out the blazing heat of the day, and the stray raindrop or two was cooling me down fast.
It was the first time in a month that I’d run and not contemplated suicide via heat exhaustion.
The wind blew harder, kicking up dust and dirt from the freshly mowed field.
“Ack,” I said, trying to get the pieces that’d stuck to my face off while still maintaining a moderate pace.
“Gonna be a big one,” the old man that I passed for the tenth time said.
I agreed but was too winded to say a word.
I was trying to pace out a ten-kilometer run in forty minutes.
I wasn’t going to make it.
Not with the heat for the first sixteen laps, and now the blowing of the wind for the last eight and a half.
But, at least it felt good.
Right?
Wrong.
Because between one lap and the next, a light rain started to fall from the sky and lightning struck about a hundred meters in front of me.
It was so loud and so terrifyingly shocking that it took me off my feet.
The man behind me started to laugh when I nearly face planted.
