Once Zoe is up in the tree, she thinks, This is probably a bad idea. Because it probably is. There are so many ways this could go wrong. If he sees her as he approaches, this all falls apart. Gabe may have spent the day keeping her calm by asking her to come up with[…]
Once Zoe is up in the tree, she thinks, This is probably a bad idea. Because it probably is. There are so many ways this could go wrong. If he sees her as he approaches, this all falls apart. Gabe may have spent the day keeping her calm by asking her to come up with[…]
Zoe has never felt weak-kneed relief quite like she does that Monday morning, when Alex sends her the message telling her that he’s fine and he’s been released. She gets the tweet at lunch, after obsessively checking her phone all morning any time she thinks she can get away with it. She’s so relieved that[…]
The firm purpose and conviction that filled Zoe while she listened to Alex’s CD at three in the morning last night lasts right up to the moment she’s sitting alone in the Book and Bean as their appointed meeting time comes and goes. Every time the bell on the door dings, her head snaps up,[…]
It’s almost three-thirty when she gives up on sleep and pulls open her laptop. She puts the CD in, tucks her headphones into her ears, draws her knees to her chest, and lets his voice wash over her. “Hey Zo. It’s about… 4 am. I, uh, well, as you probably know, I left the last[…]
She goes home and gives her parents the quickest, simplest run down that she can, and then proceeds to pace her room, worrying herself into a knot of anxiety, biting her nails down to the quick. Not knowing anything about what’s going on is the worst possible torture she can imagine because her mind fills[…]
Out in the main mall, there’s an altercation. This isn’t unprecedented; there have been six or seven since Zoe started working here. But from the start, something about this one is different. At first, all she can hear is yelling. She can’t even make out the words, but for some reason, they strike panic into[…]
Zoe hates dead shifts. It is not possible, she thinks as she glances up at the clock, that only two freaking minutes have passed since the last time I looked up. She has a letter to reply to – she just wants to go home and write and not be here anymore. Thinking about the[…]
Emma keeps hinting that she wants more, and it’s making Alex nervous. Every time she leaves for the night, she tries to linger a bit longer, and she has often reached over and kissed him on the cheek before he can protest. It kills him to think that just a few months ago he thought[…]
Her dad drops her off at the San Diego Repertory Theatre at eleven, an hour before she and Gabe and Kevin are supposed to meet Zoe. Gabe is doing last minute tweaks on the Secret Project, and he promised Lissa she could help. Gabe is her new favorite person. He came to her mom’s funeral[…]