Chapter 268

We stood like that, holding each other on the side of the road, for a few minutes, before Kim pulled away and announced, “Let’s go!”
And so she tossed her graduation gown over the boxes in the back seat, we both got into the car, and we drove. Kim was suddenly much more talkative. We discussed the end of our respective school years. Without me, Kim had no distractions and had finished her high school years on an academic high note. She also had more time to work at the grocery store without the homework program, so she was making more money, much of it being overtime. All of the boxes she had packed her stuff in had come from the grocery store. We discussed the boxes, me being surprised that all she had when moving was three large boxes and one medium-sized box. Apparently all she packed was her clothes, shoes, a few bags, a few school supplies, and her bathroom stuff. Everything she had packed she had bought with her own money, and she wanted nothing else from her mom’s home. The dress she was wearing she had bought with the excess money she had made working at the grocery store, which she had bought as a present to me. I told her how beautiful it was, and how beautiful she was in it. I got to watch her blush as I added that last part in.
And so we kept talking as we drove for another three hours.