The sun shone bright, a blanket of thinly stretched white clouds dotting the azure sky. It was going to be a beautiful day. I thought about the phone call the entire way home. Yuri wanted me to go. Andy wanted me to go. And I was thinking I wanted to go, too. So what on earth was holding me back? Andy navigated his car into the driveway, stopping just outside the garage. The dew glistened on the wheat-colored grass, sparkling like diamonds in the early morning sun. A pair of squirrels chased each other around the trunk of the crooked, silver oak in the back yard and a blue jay squawked from his perch on one of the branches. I envied them. They didn’t have monumental, life-altering decisions to make. Their agenda was simple: survive. He turned off the engine. “You coming?” I tore my eyes from the tree. “Where?” “Into the house?”
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