Chapter 31. Noelle

Noelle wiped the tears as best as she could with the back of her hand. She drove aimlessly, trying to decide where to go. She had no friends here. She had no one anymore. The scene played out in her mind over and over. The predatory look from her stepmom when she spotted Shane. The triumph when she realized she had already fucked him. 

Noelle pulled the Mustang to the side of the road, opened the door and threw up again. Not that there was much left in her at this point. The seared tuna medallions had been regurgitated into the Yucca planter and nothing was left in her stomach but bile. She sat there for a moment and tried to breathe deeply in order to calm down. She emptied her mind enough to stop her stomach from churning, got back behind the wheel, put the car in gear and continued down the road. 

After a while, she found herself at the passenger drop off at Dulles Airport. She barely remembered driving there. She pulled to the curb and got out of the car, j