Isn’t that cool? That they can predict the future with their nose?” “Yes,” said Nora. “Way cool.” Nora bit into her cheese sandwich.
And then Dylan put his arm around her. Nora jumped up.
“—the hell?” she said. Dylan looked deeply apologetic. And a little horrified at himself.
“I’m sorry. Did I hurt your shoulder?” “No... I just... I... No. No. It’s fine.”
She discovered that Dylan was her boyfriend and that he had gone to the same secondary school as her, Hazeldene Comp. And that he was two years younger.
Nora could remember the day her dad died, when she was in the school library,
staring as a blond boy from a couple of years below ran past outside the rain-speckled window.
Either chasing someone or being chased. That had been him.
She had vaguely liked him, from a distance, but without really knowing him or thinking about him at all.
“You all right, Norster?” Dylan asked. Norster? “Yeah. I was just... Yeah. I’m fine.” Nora sat down again but left a bit more bench between them.
There was nothing overtly wrong with Dylan. He was sweet. And she was sure that in this life she genuinely liked him. Maybe even loved him.
But entering a life wasn’t the same as entering an emotion.
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