Page 93 of Creeping Beautiful

What? Wait… What? I’m not walking out. And even if I did leave, I would come back, Donovan. I’m not walking out. I just want a boyfriend.

And that boyfriend has to be Nate?

Who else would it be?

Well, that’s kind of my point. You don’t know anyone else your own age except Nate. And now, those girls you just spent a semester with. Did you like any of them?

I guess. They were OK. But I wasn’t Indie with them. I was this girl named Jane. I mean… Jane? Come on. I’m not a Jane! I’m an Indie!

Did you lose your accent?

What accent?

Your Louisiana accent.

I never had an accent.

You so did.

Did not.

OK. But… do you think you’re talking differently?

Can we get back to the point?

Yes. Good idea. OK. So what are your plans?

For what?

The future, Indie. Do you see yourself going to college?

Ha! Haha!

Then what are you going to do?

Um… exactly what I have been doing.

So you’re going to just be a criminal your whole life? Is that what you’re saying?

Look who’s talking.

I’m a doctor. I have a job. And a life.

Do you have a girlfriend?

Several, actually.

Well… I didn’t know that.

You don’t know anything about me,.

So it seems.

But that’s beside the point. We’re not here to talk about me. We’re here to talk about you. And what was happening in the living room when I walked in the house.

Adam was gonna choke Nathan to death, that’s what was happening.

But why? What did he do?