Chapter 19

"Did it work?"

"Kinda."

"Kinda?"

"Well, let's say it worked but not exactly how I expected it to." He smiled, convincing me to make a wish.

'I wish my mum gets out of her rehabilitation center Sooner, I miss her.' I said to myself before I threw the stone into water and watched it sink quietly.

"Can I make two wishes?" I asked him and heard him chuckle loudly.

"I made like a million wishes here so yeah, I think so." He bent and picked two stones this time.

'I wish he'd like me back.' I threw in the second stone almost the same time with him.

***

We crossed the road and were still on our way back home. It was getting less sunny now, it was probably six pm, I didn't know, I didn't check. We hadn't talked all the time we've been walking and we were almost home, he still had my book. We got to our avenue, just three houses more and we would be home.

"Julie?" He called and I lifted my head up to my left to answer him without ver