October by J Grace Pennington

Author:J Grace Pennington [Pennington, J Grace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-27T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Jax was already gone to take care of the cows the next morning when I woke up, and I was glad. I wasn’t sure what to say to him after the night before—if I should say anything at all. Probably, like the choir, it would become something else that we silently agreed to never talk about.

October and I had agreed to spend the day practicing her driving, so after breakfast I took her to the mall so she could drive around the parking lot.

“It’s not as hard as I remember,” she contemplated after backing into a parking spot successfully. “I used to get terribly confused about which way to turn the wheel when backing up.”

“It’s the same way you turn it when going forward,” I observed.

“Isn’t it backwards, though?” She furrowed her brows and turned the wheel right and left. “It feels backwards.”

I chuckled. “It doesn’t really matter as long as you can do it.”

“Want to go in when we’re done?” she asked, gesturing towards the mall with her head.

I hesitated. Melissa would probably be there, and I didn’t really feel like seeing her. Especially after last night. “Sure,” I agreed. “If you really want to.”

“Of course I do. I could use a new dress.”

She shifted gears and prepared to make another trip around the parking lot.

I peeked at her as she leaned over the steering wheel, eyes intensely focused, red hair tied back out of the way with a green ribbon. Where did she get her money? It was the first time I had ever thought to wonder this. She had no job. She did no work that I knew of. She just walked and read and picked out clothes and spent time with us. Did it come from her father?

I shook the thoughts from my head as she prepared to park again, forward this time, and I encouraged and directed her through the process.

“I don’t know what you’re worried about,” I said as she parked and turned the car off. “You’re not bad at all.”

“Oh, you flatterer.” She tossed her hair and got out of the car, slamming the door behind her.

I followed her lead, feeling a little lighter after her driving success, then I rushed around to the other side of the car to head into the mall with her.

“Want to see a movie?” she asked as we waited for a car to pass.

“What movie?”

“Oh, I don’t know. We can find something silly and poke fun at it afterwards.”

“Sounds perfect,” I agreed, and we rushed to enter.

We saw a ridiculous movie, both found new dresses, avoided Melissa, and I managed to almost forget Jax during the rest of the afternoon. It wasn’t until October was slowly driving us back home that I felt a twinge of guilt for not even checking up on him. I had no idea what he’d even done during the day.

Probably just studied.

I pulled out my phone, slid the keyboard out, and sent a text. “Hey, are you okay today?” I asked.

He replied, “Doing better.

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