Disclaimer: I don't own The Covenant or "All Around Me" by Flyleaf, which is where I got the titles.
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11. Savoring This Heart That's Healing
Like a good son, he ran his mother's weekly errands. Caleb didn't know why they still bothered to attribute them to his mom since he'd been running them since she'd purchased the Mustang for him on his sixteenth birthday. It was a pretense, like so much else in their lives. A carefully constructed façade that had to be maintained or else.
But all that melted away as Sarah stepped out from behind a shelf in the drugstore and flashed him that dazzling smile. Caleb had been in love before…or so he thought. Now, in the face of the feelings he was feeling for this girl who he'd just met the night before, he wasn't quite sure. Sure, asking her to come with him as he finished his errands was as lame as Reid's line to her last night, but he had the sudden urge to spend the entire day with her.
But she agreed to come, lameness aside, and gave him another of those smiles that managed to be both shy and flirty at the same time.