The Opposite of Love (2014)
“Chase presses his face against the cool glass, thinking.
Daniel’s hand-me-down Ford pickup pulled up thirty seconds after Rose’s taxi turned left on New L.A. Avenue. Chase hopped in, and they’d been trailing the taxi ever since, like some kind of wannabe detectives.
He recounts the conversation for Becca and Daniel, as close to word for word as he can remember. He knows he’s missing something. Like she’s dropped some major clue and he just hasn’t seen it.
“If she’s not going to kill... herself, I bet she’s hiring someone to kill her parents. If that’s the case, I’m not sure whether or not we should try to stop her. I might even like to help her.” Becca sits wedged between Chase and Daniel in the front seat of her brother’s car. Her fingers hold an unlit cigarette, and she fiddles with it, reluctantly obeying Daniel’s rule of no smoking in the car. “Next thing we know, we’ll see her story on Dateline NBC, and then there’ll be a Law and Order episode based on it.MoreLess
Daniel’s hand-me-down Ford pickup pulled up thirty seconds after Rose’s taxi turned left on New L.A. Avenue. Chase hopped in, and they’d been trailing the taxi ever since, like some kind of wannabe detectives.
He recounts the conversation for Becca and Daniel, as close to word for word as he can remember. He knows he’s missing something. Like she’s dropped some major clue and he just hasn’t seen it.
“If she’s not going to kill... herself, I bet she’s hiring someone to kill her parents. If that’s the case, I’m not sure whether or not we should try to stop her. I might even like to help her.” Becca sits wedged between Chase and Daniel in the front seat of her brother’s car. Her fingers hold an unlit cigarette, and she fiddles with it, reluctantly obeying Daniel’s rule of no smoking in the car. “Next thing we know, we’ll see her story on Dateline NBC, and then there’ll be a Law and Order episode based on it.MoreLess
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