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Owen gets into his truck and slams the door shut. I stand watching him in near horror, a scream lodged in my throat choking me all the while. He’s leaving. He is really leaving.
Unable to process this, to think that this may be over, I simply stand there like a dead robot and watch my life fall apart as he backs out.
Then, from across the street another loud engine roars to life, and when I turn to it, I see that it’s Bo. The truck nearly burns rubber as he leaves just as angrily, right behind Owen.
I walk to the end of the driveway to watch the caravan of two black trucks as they make their way down to the end of the street. Then one turns left and the other right, and then they are both out of sight.
Jane and Jess are by my side in an instant, though Nate is nowhere to be seen.
“Are you all right, honey?” Jane asks taking my arm.
Shaking my head no, I say, “I couldn’t even tell who was who?”
“What?” Jess asks.
“I couldn’t tell them apart, the trucks. They confused me when they drove away.”
Jane and Jess look at each other, then talk to me like they think I’m having a mental crisis. Who knows, maybe I am. “We’ll help you inside,” Jess says.
“Don’t worry about a thing,” Jane tells me, too.
I let them lead me in, but all the while I’m trying to decide who went left and who went right.
