Taming the Telomeres by R.N. Shapiro

Author:R.N. Shapiro [Shapiro, R.N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: R.N. Shapiro
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 61

B&O MAGNET

IN “HER ROOM” at Aunt Barbara’s, Amanda finds a small notepad and handwrites a note. She folds the note and puts it inside a small envelope. Then she texts Charlyne.

U R one of my BFFs, right?

Yep. U home?

Yeah. Got sprung tonight. Pick me up tomorrow after school? Want to visit B&O bridge overlook. Can U?

Sure. Be there at 3:30, K?

Text when U R a couple blocks away, I’m sneaking out. Kinda in lockdown.

The next morning Amanda texted David who was assigned to take her back to school. She said she was sick and wouldn't be going. When David never came by Aunt Barbara discussed it with Amanda, who said she just didn't feel up to going to school.

When she gets Charlyne’s text, Amanda grabs her cell phone, puts a couple items in a small knapsack, and cuts through the back yard to find her.

“Thanks a lot for picking me up, and I know it was weird asking you not to come to the house.”

“I know everything is weird for you. Everyone at school is saying you got forced into a psychiatric hospital. Did you?”

Charlyne puts the car in drive and starts pulling away.

“Yeah, for no reason really. My aunt did it. I just don’t want to go to school, at least not yet.”

“I get it. You’ve been through hell. I went to Kent’s funeral with Iris and David. It was terrible.”

Amanda puts her hand up. “No details please. I wanted to go but I just couldn’t.”

“So where exactly are we going now?” Charlyne asks.

“It’s a beautiful park that overlooks the B&O railroad trestle on the Shenandoah River. Kent took me there. Have you ever been?”

“No, but I kinda know where it is. Just point out some turns at the end, okay? Are you getting any tutoring since you’re ditching school?”

“I really haven’t done anything since Kent died. I’ve just been trying to figure out things.”

“Yeah, right. Why does something like that happen to a guy like Kent? I have trouble believing he OD’d.”

“We didn’t have any secrets. He would’ve told me if he was doing drugs like that.”

“Some of the seniors think he wanted to commit suicide because of what happened to his mom.”

“That’s crap. He never talked about suicide or anything like that. Besides, I think he really liked me, so why…Up here at this next intersection is where you turn.”

A few minutes later Amanda guides Charlyne into the area where she and Kent had pulled off. As they close the car doors, Amanda tosses her cell phone onto the front passenger seat. Charlyne notices.

“You’re not bringing that?”

“No. I don’t want to lose it out there.”

However, Charlyne notices Amanda has a small knapsack slung over her shoulder. Charlyne pauses a moment, then decides to bring her cell phone.Amanda guides them along a path, the same one she walked with Kent.

“Been here a lot?” Charlyne asks.

“Just once.”

As they walk along the path Charlyne looks back toward the road.

When they arrive at the top of the path near the

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