Chapter117

#Chapter117

"We can find something else to do." Jess lips narrowed.

"It's fine." I zipped up my fleece hoodie.

In the beginning, I wasn't sure if returning to the gym was good for me. How was I going to confront Carl? How would I explain to him the things he had discovered in my bag?

"Are you sure?" She quizzed.

"It's okay." I shoved her toward the door, smiling to mask the jitters that had consumed me....

As I stood in the gym's lobby, shifting from one foot to the other, I waited. Jess had run to the bathroom, leaving me anxious and also unsure if I would come across Carl.

"Finally." I signed when Jess emerged.

"What?" She looked at me, her eyes squinting with a look so strange. "I was in there for like two minutes."

"Long enough." I shoved her toward the locker room to change...

As I slipped out of my street clothes and into my gym wear, the anxiety within me had increased tremendously. The lies I had created in my mind to tell Carl had now seemed ridic