Chapter 63. Sorry

LEE

I found myself facing Zac with a furrowed brow and slightly open mouth, hardly able to believe the words I had just heard from him.

“What did you say? Come… come again?” I asked him. I didn’t finish throwing away the ice cream wrapper and tissue I was holding and sat back down on the swing next to him.

He laughed and shook his head two or three times. After that, he cleared his throat and then repeated the words I had asked him to say again, “I’m sorry, Lee. I’m sorry for lying… for everything…”

The grin that was on his face earlier turned serious as he continued speaking, “I’m sorry for lying to you back then at the record store in the mall so I could buy the last stock of Tate’s signed album. It’s just that… I was really desperate at that time, and… Cza, my younger sister, was angry with me because I already had committed two sins to her—first, I didn’t come home on her birthday because we had a graduation ball, and… I was also the reason she got