Page 93 of Don't Leave Me Behind

---

I told him he wasn’t enough when all he ever asked of me was not to leave him.

Fresh tears fall from my eyes as I pull onto the shoulder. When I left the ranch for the first time, it felt freeing, like I was on the cusp of something great. This time, I feel like I’m losingpart of myself, that I’m leaving home behind me, and it’s not the ranch. It’s Clay.

Flinging my seatbelt off my body, I wiggle around the wheel to search the back seat for my phone. I need to fix this before he leaves. Before that dark place takes him again, and I lose him forever. The past doesn’t matter or my family knowing about it. Nothing matters if he can be mine.

Turning on the overhead light, I lean back over the center console, shuffling through my things, looking for a needle in a haystack with how cluttered it is. The black of my screen flashes as a spotlight shines through the window, illuminating things better than the dome light ever could.

I turn toward it, my tired brain taking too long to process where the light is coming from. My world blurs in slow motion as headlights smash into the side of my vehicle, the world shattering around me.

We Need Leni Updates Group Chat

Miya Park

2 years ago

Again. I will not be doing that.

Mercer

Don’t think of it as spying Mimi. Just think of it as you keeping tabs on Leni

Brooks

For us…

Ethan

Fuck it. Call it what it is. We need you to spy for us Miya.

Miya Park has left the we need Leni Updates group chat

Miya Park has joined the we need Leni updates group chat

Miya Park

2:56 AM

Leni was broughtin by life flight.

Brooks

3:45 AM

Are you serious?

Miya Park

I don’t have time to call. On shift. Get here.

Brooks

Fuck

Chapter 30

I’m Not Going Anywhere

Clay

---