Page 113 of Creeping Beautiful

You mean pretend none of this happened? I thought that was part of my problem?

There’s a difference between keeping secrets and pretending it never happened.

I’m sick of secrets.

So stop keeping them.

All of them?

Don’t start with me. You know which secrets I’m referring to.

You’re gonna be mad.

OK. I might be. But what do you think will happen if I’m mad? Do you think I will hurt you?

Of course not.

Do you think I will hate you?

I don’t think so.

Do you think I will help you, Indie? Do you think Adam, and McKay and I will protect you, no matter what you tell us?

Yes. I know that.

Then why are you afraid of us? That’s the better question here. Not why are we afraid of you, because we’re not. Why are you afraid of us?

Don’t be stupid. I’m not afraid of you guys. I just…

You just don’t remember, do you?

I already told you, I remember some of it.

Tell me those parts. And we can go from there.

…

You can sigh all you want. And did you hear that? I think Adam and Maggie are home. Don’t you want to see her? You can give her a bath. You can take a bath together. You always did love bubble baths. Come on. Tell me the rest. You know this has to happen. Why did you leave?

Because I… I got offered a job.

What job?

You know. The regular kind.

You went to kill someone?

Maybe.

Who, Indie? I need to know who.

No one you’d know. It was no one important.

Then why did they need to die?

Because they were bad people.

How do you know they were bad?