Chapter 44: Carter

##Chapter 44: Carter

As I pull out of the state park, my phone dings with an incoming message. I don't bother checking who it is. I'm not ready for reality to rear its ugly head. Instead, I glance at Daisy. She's still slumped on her seat with one hand shielding her face from view.

I laugh, and she lowers her hand enough to glare.

"There's nothing funny about what just happened. I've never been more humiliated in my life," she grumbles.

"Well, had he stumbled upon us five minutes later," I interject. "I think this moment wouldn't have felt so bad."

Daisy groans and buries her face in both hands. "I'll never be able to show my face there again."

"I doubt it's your face that he'll remember."

That comment earns me a whack on the chest.

"Ow," I laugh and rub the spot with my fingers. It doesn't hurt all that much. I take a worse beating out on the field every day, but I have the feeling that she'll hit me again if she doesn't think I've been properly chastised.

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