The Aftermath

Epilogue

 

Epilogue

 

Needless to say we’d gotten an ‘A’ on our project just like I knew we would, the perfection of it all was just icing on the cake. I’d slowly but surely gotten back to talking to my Aunt the way that I did before and now we got up and put flowers on their graves together, when we could. I’d even decided going to community college in the next town over wouldn’t kill me at least for two years. But there were some things Bree and I kept in honor of our new found knowledge of the world. Getting the last few things from Nanny’s house and putting them in my apartment was something I’d never thought I’d ever be doing at nineteen but I was all for change because sometimes it was good.

“Pass it, that’s the way it works.” Bree scolded me. I passed the joint accordingly taking a deep breath of my own before lying back down on the unclothed mattress.

Bree had finally decided to call her dad and she was expecting a new little brother any day now as she awaited the little bundle she’d be camping out with me at my place for just a few days according to her as she awaited her fall at Baylor to start, but I knew in a few days she’d be gone to greet her new baby brother. You could always hear the excitement in her voice as she informed yet another poor sap of her impeccable standing.

 Birdie went along to find her friend Delany somewhere in a few towns over. While Davis was more than happy to tell his parents how he’d been feeling and they informed him they were getting a divorce, something about his mom and the mail man getting caught by his Dad. Joe broke in the twins as waitresses at Ruby’s making sure he’d given each of them a hard time whenever they’d gotten one of his orders wrong. I’d never went to visit Kate again keeping her lies and the nasty things she said locked away in my memory but now that I understood she was just a very sick woman that it’d been maybe even a blessing in disguise that I’d even found her that day on the computer, after all it was a funny story to tell new people though. Nanny and Mayor Norman oddly enough kept in touch as strictly friends according to her but you could always see the sparkle in her eyes whenever she mentioned him. At this point I was just glad to see that everyone was better than before even if it meant going through a hard time once upon a time all we needed to remember was to just breathe.