Good Girl Gone by Tammy Falkner

Author:Tammy Falkner [Falkner, Tammy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, romance, New Adult Romance
ISBN: 9781508509059
Google: YcfCBQAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00QSDNUEQ
Barnesnoble: B00QSDNUEQ
Goodreads: 23652893
Publisher: Night Shift Publishing
Published: 2015-02-16T05:00:00+00:00

Josh

“Are you sure you want to go with me?” I ask her. She’s standing at the bathroom sink putting on her makeup.

She looks at me in the mirror. “Unless you don’t want me to.” Her eyebrows rise in question.

“No, no,” I protest. I don’t want to go in there alone. I’m afraid. More afraid than I have ever been. “I want you to go.”

She smiles at me. “Then I’m going.” She purses her lips in the mirror, applies lip gloss, and blows me a kiss across the palm of her hand. My heart squeezes in my chest. That’s such a normal thing to do. Like a boyfriend and girlfriend kind of thing. But we’re not. Sure, she came on my face last night, but that doesn’t imply in any way that she’s in this for the long haul.

“What should I expect today?” she asks as she walks across the room and picks up her purse.

“I have no idea. I haven’t seen Lilly since right after the accident.”

She stops cold. “You never came back after she woke up?”

I shake my head. “No.”

“Oh,” she breathes. “Well, you’re here now.”

I am. And I’m abso-fucking-lutely terrified to see her.

***

We enter the long driveway and I drive really slowly, taking in the scenery, because there’s a small part of me that feels like this is home. I spent as much time here as I did at my own house when Lilly and I were growing up. We slept in a tent in her yard on warm summer nights. And we spent nights in sleeping bags on her playroom floor. This feels even more like home than my own house would, if I were to be welcome there for a visit.

I put the car in park, and Star reaches over and squeezes my knee. I can’t feel it, but I don’t tell her that. “You got this,” she tells me, like she’s putting me in a football game.

“What if she hates me?”

“What if she doesn’t?”

I slide into my chair and then I see Lilly’s mother standing on the porch. She’s put on some weight, but she still looks the same even with her silver hair and her wider waistline. I freeze. I don’t know what to do or say.

“Josh,” Lilly’s mom gushes as she suddenly runs down the steps to meet me. She bends at the waist and embraces me, and it feels good. Really good. “I’m so glad you’re here.”

“I’m glad you called.” I am. I am. I am. If I say that enough, I’ll believe it. “How’s Lilly?”

She shrugs and avoids my eyes. “About the same.”

“Can I see her?”

She nods. “Let’s go to the kitchen and have some cookies first, shall we?”

Star coughs into her closed fist and I realize that I haven’t introduced her. “Mrs. Jameson, this is my good friend Star. I conned her into driving all the way down with me.”

Mrs. Jameson pulls Star into an embrace.

“You have a lovely home,” Star says.

“Oh, this old thing…” Mrs. Jameson says, but her cheeks flush and I can tell she’s pleased.

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