This collection is on the backburner while I do Project PULL, but I'll try to squeeze in a regular update every week.
Summary: Everyone else mostly avoids her that first summer, but he comes up to her with a Sharpie and a request. [Rachel/Will Solace.] As requested by Reading-and-Bubbling.
51. sign.
"Can I sign your jeans?" Will Solace asks her, with a hopeful look on his face and a felt-tip marker in his hand.
"They're not like a cast or anything," Rachel says. "But if you insist."
He grins; it vaguely reminds her of his dad. A curly signature joins the colorful drawings.
Sometimes, when she wears those jeans again, she'll catch her fingers drifting to the Will Solace on her thigh, to trace the four straight lines of the uppercase W written in silver Sharpie. And Rachel wonders, just a little.
She politely refuses anyone who asks her after that.
