✽ Jason ✽
I considered lying. I considered denying everything. But even as I stared at Mandy, I knew I wouldn’t. We stood in the small storage room, and I couldn’t help but notice that she had one hand on the door handle and the other clenched at her side. I knew then that she was waiting for me to lie. Again, I considered doing exactly that. I could deflect the situation. I could try to convince her that this was all a misunderstanding. A protective habit that had been taken too far. Normal people would feel cornered by this sort of confrontation. Normal people would try to defend themselves.
I wasn’t normal.
“If you want the truth,” I started slowly. “Then you will get all of it,” Mandy’s eyes went wide, and she swallowed hard before she gave me a single nod. “The first time I walke
