Disclaimer: I don't own The Covenant nor "All Around Me" by Flyleaf, which is what I'm using as titles.
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4. And I Begin to Fade
They'd gone to a small market to buy a certain kind of blackberry jam that his mother liked, and now they were driving through the New England countryside. Caleb had put the top down on the Mustang—Sarah couldn't help but smile at the feel of the wind in her hair.
Their day together had started off great, but the farther they wound their way along back roads, the more depressed Caleb grew. His brown eyes—always so serious even when he was laughing—lost their sparkle around the time they crossed over an old stone bridge. By the time when he pointed out the old Putnam barn, the depression had become a physical force in the car.
At first, she'd thought it was something she had said. Maybe over the course of their afternoon together, Caleb had decided she really wasn't all that interesting. He was just too nice to toss her out of his car. So, she'd forced a smile and made inane conversation about the beauty of the scenery.
But it wasn't her. It was something else draining the cheer from his laugh and smoothing the laugh crinkles in the corners of his eyes. It was the history of this place, she decided as he eased the car up to a stop in front of an old, ramshackled house. The history was smothering him.