Breaking Point
Page 6
by Lesley Choyce
When she got out of the car at her house, she just looked at me, and I couldn’t read her look. There was so much more I wanted to say to her, but before I could, her parents had run out the door and were hugging her. Chris said a few words to them, and then we were driving off.
He knew what I was feeling, but he didn’t quite know what to say. Then he finally turned his head a bit and said, “You’ll get over her.”
But I knew he was dead wrong about that.
Lesley Choyce spends time on the waters of the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia when not writing for teens and running his own publishing company. His latest books for Orca include Reckless and Reaction.