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find.  She felt like she had been taken from her real life and dropped into this one.  Jessie would look in the mirror and give her reflection pep talks, trying to understand what it was that she was missing.  She was excelling at school, with a close family, supportive friends and the love of her life.  Tyler thought she was silly when she asked him not to carve their initials on the picnic table when they went camping or when she refused to get their picture done in front of a Christmas tree.  ‘Screw you, do you even know me at all?’  Jessie wanted to scream over and over at him. The words, what is wrong with me, what is wrong with me, put her to sleep at night. They were her counting sheep.
    After graduation, like clockwork, he proposed and the whirlwind of planning a wedding took over her life. Their wedding was fifteen months away but already she was tired of the traditions that seemed to come with social media and retailers.  How did people announce things before Facebook and who really needs engagement photos? These were just a few thoughts that started to point her in a contradictory direction from where her life was moving. 
    Tyler was busy at grad school and Jessie started working at a local paper, writing an advice column that she was completely unqualified for.  She couldn’t help asking herself why she was giving these people advice when she was wandering through life, having no idea what she was doing or even if she wanted the future that was upon her. She decorated their home, picked out her wedding dress, flowers, cake, decorations, but could never shake the feeling that any of it was right.  Jessie wasn’t the person she was supposed to be, she wasn’t even close.
    Since the day she left Tyler, with no explanation other than she had no explanation, she had been sure she was getting closer to the path that she was meant to travel on. Sitting in the back of the cab that morning, on the way to rent a car to drive to who knew where, nervousness was quickly replaced with confidence.  She called Allison, cursing her for not having a cell phone for hundredth time, giving her little information, other than she needed to take a rain check and that she would call her later. 
    Before she put her phone back in her pocket she googled the address.  It auto populated and showed it was exactly 202.8 kilometers from the position where she was at that moment.  She could be there by 1:00, if there were no issues getting a vehicle.  She never had a reason to rent one before, and definitely not on a long weekend Saturday.  Suddenly she was anxious about not being able to make her destination. If she couldn’t reach 1875 Victoria Road, Duke Island, was she destined to live out her life alone, with nothing but a cat to help her pick out her outfits?  Her mother was right, she should have called that therapist, the one a friend of her yoga instructor’s sister used.  She was about to tell the cab driver to change his course to the nearest Starbucks, and call Allison to ask to her meet there instead, when he pulled up to an Enterprise Rent-a -Car and politely asked for his fifteen dollar fare.  Jessie handed him a twenty, told him to keep the change, climbed out of the sedan, leaving her umbrella behind and stepped, with only slight hesitation, into the small retailer.

CHAPTER 5
    A glasses clad, almost not a teenager, looked up at her from the counter and gave her an - I wish I was anywhere but here - smile. Jessie moved closer, she could see keys hanging on hooks behind his head, and hoped this was a good sign.  She placed her purse on the counter, pulled out her wallet containing her driver’s license and VISA and cleared her dry, scratchy throat.
    “I would like to rent a car please.” She had trouble meeting his eyes, like he might know she was actually crazy and deny her request before calling the police.
    He passed a form across the counter to her, instructed her fill it out and asked her what