Thanks be to Ms. EBT.
"Yeah," you say as you touch your eye. "I was being an asshole. I've been an asshole. I deserved it."
I know I should be surprised, but I'm not. Bella's tough. She always has been.
I hope she always will be.
"She should've beat the shit out of me, to be honest."
"You realize she let us off the hook, right?" I ask.
"What do you mean?"
"Nobody knows what we did. Charlie has no idea why she left. If anybody else knew, we would've heard about it by now. She didn't say anything to anybody," I whisper. "She's better than the both of us, and we don't deserve it."