Chapter 59 The first step
The clock on the wall read 4:29.
I had been staring at it for the last ten minutes.
Not subtly either.
Full-on watching it like if I blinked, I’d miss something important.
“Ellie,” my mom called from the kitchen, her voice light but knowing, “if you glare at it any harder, it might stop.”
“I’m ...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Bet
2. Chapter 2 All Eyes On You
3. Chapter 3 Nice Girls Don’t Warn You
4. Chapter 4 Seen
5. Chapter 5 Under Watch
6. Chapter 6 Fallout
7. Chapter 7 Secrets
8. Chapter 8 Quiet Plans
9. Chapter 9 After the Whistle
10. Chapter 10 Better?
11. Chapter 11 You'll See
12. Chapter 12 Fake
13. Chapter 13 Lucky
14. Chapter 14 Step One
15. Chapter 15 Rumors
16. Chapter 16 Please
17. Chapter 17 Mistakes?
18. Chapter 18 Consequences
19. Chapter 19 Collapse
20. Chapter 20 Plans
21. Chapter 21 Future
22. Chapter 22 One step forward, three steps back
23. Chapter 23 Not An Option
24. Chapter 24 Easy or Hard
25. Chapter 25 Supervision
26. Chapter 26 Accountability?
27. Chapter 27 Emotions
28. Chapter 28 Escalated
29. Chapter 29 Taped To The Door
30. Chapter 30 Learning the Hard Way
31. Chapter 31 Tense
32. Chapter 32 Football
33. Chapter 33 First Kiss
34. Chapter 34 Score!
35. Chapter 35 Decisions
36. Chapter 36 Controlled
37. Chapter 37 One Word
38. Chapter 38 As long as you need
39. Chapter 39 Invisible
40. Chapter 40 Drop It
41. Chapter 41 Promises
42. Chapter 42 Break Up
43. Chapter 43 Parents too
44. Chapter 44 The Moment
45. Chapter 45 Grease & Fallout
46. Chapter 46 The Hallway After
47. Chapter 47 The Field Without Me
48. Chapter 48 Dinner with the Fam
49. Chapter 49 The Diner On Fifth
50. Chapter 50 Home
51. Chapter 51 Problems
52. Chapter 52 Conditions
53. Chapter 53 Agreeing Hurts
54. Chapter 54 Gone
55. Chapter 55 Believe
56. Chapter 56 Love
57. Chapter 57 Don't Deserve this
58. Chapter 58 Questions Once More
59. Chapter 59 The first step
60. Chapter 60 Just like that
61. Chapter 61 Things I Haven't Said
62. Chapter 62 Not Alone
63. Chapter 63 Kept Going
64. Chapter 64 A Seat At the Table
65. Chapter 65 The Interruption
66. Chapter 66 Someone Who Fights for You
67. Chapter 67 Another Tomorrow
68. Chapter 68 The Silence No One Knew
69. Chapter 69 Getting started
70. Chapter 70 Another Condition
71. Chapter 71 Dexicom
72. Chapter 72 Ice Cream Emergency
73. Chapter 73 Not your trauma
74. Chapter 74 More Like Family
75. Chapter 75 The Morning Rush
76. Chapter 76 To Break
77. Chapter 77 About Damn Time
78. Chapter 78 Low
79. Chapter 79 DONE
80. Chapter 80 Called to the Office
81. Chapter 81 The Final Straw
82. Chapter 82 The Conversation I Didn't Want
83. Chapter 83 I love her
84. Chapter 84 GED Studying
85. Chapter 85 GED TEST???
86. Chapter 86 Question One
87. Chapter 87 Ellie Was Not Okay
88. Chapter 88 GED LAST QUESTIONS
89. Chapter 89 Waiting
90. Chapter 90 I failed
91. Chapter 91 Don't Touch Him
92. Chapter 92 The Confrontation
93. Chapter 93 One Victory
94. Chapter 94 The Score
95. Chapter 95 Eleanor
96. Chapter 96 Marrow Industries
97. Chapter 97 Hidden Talent
98. Chapter 98 Custody
99. Chapter 99 Fight or Flight
100. Chapter 100 Family Court Part 1
101. Chapter 101 Family Court Part 2
102. Chapter 102 Family Court Part 3
103. Chapter 103 Family Court Part 4
104. Chapter 104 Family Court Part 5
105. Chapter 105 Family Court - Final Part
106. Chapter 106 He's mine
107. Chapter 107 House Hunting
108. Chapter 108 First day
109. Chapter 109 Let's Begin
110. Chapter 110 The Morning Of
111. Chapter 111 Definitely His Daughter
112. Chapter 112 Two Hours
113. Chapter 113 Write it down
114. Chapter 114 Partnership
115. Chapter 115 Proud Moment
116. Chapter 116 A pretty good life
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