” I watched as Tripp walked towards the door, then Danny. But not before he turned around and looked at me with some kind of look that I was suppose... to pick up on. I just waved and turned back around to my task. I heard the door close and sighed in relief.“Do you want to talk?”I spun around, dropping the box when I saw Danny standing inside the door.“Christ.” I waited a beat for my heart to slow down to a normal pace and collect my thoughts for a response. “Do we need to?”As I bent down, Danny. I knew Sarah was there, I saw her car out front. I called Shannon’s cell phone, and told her to have Sarah watch the kids for a few minutes, I need to see her in the barn. She was asking me a bunch of questions.“Honey please just do it for me.” I begged. Pretty quick I could hear her in the barn.“Where are you at?” She hollers.“Up in the loft.” I hollered back.She climbs up in the loft, ‘Where?” She asked.“Over here.” I said.It is fairly dark up there, but enough light to see by, as she. If my past actions were accurate predictors of the future, then the odds against it were very high. Still, though my hopes weren't certain, even seeing any slight possibility of working something out was preferable to what I'd been going through over the past week and a half.I spent the next hour up in that room, carefully rereading all those text messages, and listening to Leslie's voice pleading with me to call her. Pleading in the earliest messages, but, as the number of unanswered voice. " Hey that's a good idea." I said, "Should have thought about that."As my lectures were all packed into Monday's and Tuesday's I did nothave time to go hunting until Wednesday and I surprised myself byautomatically dressing as Alison for my shopping trip to look for a pairboots in the towns second hand stores. Nick did not comment on how I wasdressed when I walked into the kitchen dressed when he was eating hisbreakfast, but I did detect a strange smile on his face when he asked,"Going.