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Noah
SITTING IN THE CAR WITH THE ENGINE IDLING, I STARED THROUGH THE
car window at Lily’s Diner, halfway down Main Street, in the small town of
Whisper Ridge. The windows were covered on the inside with broken down
packing boxes and a solitary rainbow cling was stuck between the
cardboard and the glass. Peering through the windshield, which was being
covered by a thickening layer of snowflakes, I reached for the controls and
flicked on the windshield wipers. The blades moved back and forth,
clearing away the snow, so I could get a better look.
“It’s strange seeing it like that,” I said to Fox, nodding toward the diner.
My son, with the requisite shrug of not caring about anything these
days, glanced at me, then back down at his phone.
The wipers continued their rhythmic motion, swiping away the snow
that was falling heavier now. We sat in silence for a moment, the gentle
patter of snowflakes against the car so pretty.
“It used to be so full of life,” I added. “It’s a shame to see it all boarded
up like that. Well not boarded. I mean, with flattened boxes, cardboard I
think. What do you think?”
Fox grumbled something under his breath, but I was used to that—he
hadn’t forgiven me for leaving Columbus for this trip down memory lane,
whatever the reason.
I stared back at the diner and couldn’t help but feel a sense of nostalgia.
It was something from my past, memories of happier times before
everything imploded. Despite its abandoned state—Lily had been gone for
over a year now—the place was part of Whisper Ridge’s history, a reminder
of better times.
Thank you, Aunt Lily. I wish I’d come back sooner. I’m so sorry.
Out front, the Lily’s Diner sign, with its open white flower and my
great-aunt’s name, swung gently. For some reason, she’d left the place to
me, so Aunt Lily’s little piece of Whisper Ridge was mine now, and even
sitting here in my car, staring up at the sign, I didn’t know if I deserved it.
The town was smaller than I remembered, or maybe I felt bigger, older,
weighed down by everything that had happened since I was last here. Not
least the divorce, which was still a fresh hurt, and one of the reasons I’d
decided not to sell the property, but to reopen the diner.
Somewhere new for us.
Safe.
A fresh start for me and for my son, Fox, because there was no way my
ex, Briggs Lewiston, MLB pitcher for the Columbus River Kings, would be
seen dead in the-middle-of-nowhere Wyoming.
Not to mention, it might give me a chance to get my head straight and
stop jumping at shadows.
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