Chapter 9 The Cost
Tyler doesn't show up.
I'm sitting at our usual library table, watching the clock tick past five-fifteen, five-twenty, five-thirty.
Finally, my phone buzzes.
Tyler: Can't do tutoring anymore. My parents said I should focus on other stuff. Sorry.
That's it. No explanation. No apology.
Just g...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Art of Disappearing
2. Chapter 2 The Hart House
3. Chapter 3 The Intervention
4. Chapter 4 Settling In
5. Chapter 5 The Weight of Attention
6. Chapter 6 Exposed
7. Chapter 7 Witness
8. Chapter 8 The Girl Who Thinks She's Special
9. Chapter 9 The Cost
10. Chapter 10 Ultimatum
11. Chapter 11 The Signature
12. Chapter 12 The Other Side
13. Chapter 13 Burning Bridges
14. Chapter 14 Unraveling
15. Chapter 15 Consequences
16. Chapter 16 Distance
17. Chapter 17 The Cost of Standing Up
18. Chapter 18 Crumbling
19. Chapter 19 Breaking Rules
20. Chapter 20 The Project
21. Chapter 21 Too Close
22. Chapter 22 The Warning
23. Chapter 23 Last Meeting
24. Chapter 24 Silence
25. Chapter 25 Breaking Point
26. Chapter 26 The Sidelines
27. Chapter 27 Almost
28. Chapter 28 Waiting room
29. Chapter 29 Falling
30. Chapter 30 The Park
31. Chapter 31 Secret
32. Chapter 32 Caught
33. Chapter 33 The Call That Changes Everything
34. Chapter 34 What Staying Would Cost
35. Chapter 35 Packing Down a Life
36. Chapter 36 The Silence Between Cities
37. Chapter 37 New Ground
38. Chapter 38 The First Message
39. Chapter 39 Becoming
40. Chapter 40 What I Came Back To Say
41. Chapter 41 Crestwood, First Day
42. Chapter 42 Zion
43. Chapter 43 The Phone Call
44. Chapter 44 What Sophie Knows
45. Chapter 45 Forty-Five Minutes
46. Chapter 46 After the Park
47. Chapter 47 The Essay
48. Chapter 48 Whitmore Calls
49. Chapter 49 The Midterm
50. Chapter 50 Old Fire
51. Chapter 51 Submit Immediately
52. Chapter 52 What the Essay Does
53. Chapter 53 Spring back
54. Chapter 54 The Honest Conversation
55. Chapter 55 The fig tree
56. Chapter 56 His World
57. Chapter 57 The Writing Symposium
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