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the cool cloth to her forehead. She covers her with a blanket and goes to get her coffee and a bottle of water. As she closes the fridge she notices the Tylenol and pops two in her hand. She hands Justine the Tylenol and the bottle of water. Justine pops the pills in her mouth and then chugs the whole bottle of water.
    “You want to talk about it?” Zoe asks
    “Nope” she snaps back.
    “You know one day we both need to talk about it, I don’t think holding it in anymore is doing either of us any good.” I try to plead with her.
    We never talk about our pasts. Zoe was never once touched or hurt but she thinks Justine was. Zoe thinks that night they both ran was the first time Justine had the courage to do so. Justine never let her go after that, never asked why or how or where they would go. She just went.
    “Crap it’s almost 2:30 , I need to get ready for work, you going to be ok?” Zoe asks
    “ Yes I’m good just get to work don’t be late again because of me”
     

Chapter 4
Zoe
    “You’re late again, Zoe” Mr. Pritchard is always on her case.
    “Sorry sir, I will try not to let it happen again”. Zoe apologizes
    Mr. Pritchard was marking this all down on his little notepad as she was walking to her station at the sorting belt. Zoe worked the 3-7 shifts at the local shipping station here in this little town. Justine and Zoe moved out here away from big city after Zoe graduated high school.
    Justine was kicked out of the home once she turned eighteen. She got a job, a small apartment, and stayed close to the home for Zoe. Zoe was still in high school then and had a small part time job at a fast food place. She always went to Justine’s apartment afterwards. Half the time she just stayed the night there. Sometimes the house would call Justine and make her bring Zoe home, the other half they just didn’t think they cared anymore.
    One night Zoe just moved in with Justine and never went back to the home. Justine said she had to finish school though, that she was too smart to waste it. Zoe was ok with that, she still loved school. It was easy for her. They wanted to make her Valedictorian, but no way was she going to be up on that stage giving a speech. She skipped school for a couple days just so she didn’t qualify for it. Zoe hated being the center of attention.
    After Zoe graduated they moved out here away from the big city and all the people and they both got jobs at the shipping company, sorting packages, and the local diner. They worked alternating shifts at both places and Zoe also went to school at a small music school outside of town.
    Justine got her a guitar one year for Christmas and she has been playing it ever since. The teachers at the school tell her that she is really talented and should put a demo together, yeah right! No way would she want that kind of spot light on her. Zoe just loved to play and learn new notes and ways to play.
    She felt like the kid in a movie she saw. In the movie the kid was given up and he found music, eventually the music brought him to his parents. For her the love of music and the whole orphan thing really hit home, but that kid had way more balls then her, she felt parents didn’t want her so why should she go looking for them? The crap she went through as a kid, never loved, never having a home, and then the thought that she could just find them and live happily ever after, not possible in her eyes.
    Zoe wants a family of her own one day though. She would love to have kids and a man that love her and their children. She could see it sometimes, in the customers who came to the diner. She knows there are good people out there somewhere, but she felt like she has met more bad ones then good. But she sees it in couple’s eyes, the looks they give each other and the light in their eyes when they look at their children. Old or small it doesn’t matter; the old couples are her favorite. After so many years with the same person they still have that love behind