Chapter 59 The first step

The clock on the wall read 4:29.

I had been staring at it for the last ten minutes.

Not subtly either.

Full-on watching it like if I blinked, I’d miss something important.

“Ellie,” my mom called from the kitchen, her voice light but knowing, “if you glare at it any harder, it might stop.”

“I’m ...

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