(Lena)
We quietly left the room and pulled the door mostly closed behind us.
I stood there for a second looking at the door.
"What?" Cole asked.
I shook my head.
"Nothing."
That wasn't true.
I was going to miss Diane when she left.
Not because I thought I would never see her again. New York wasn't that far away and she had already made it clear that she expected visits. It wasn't even because she'd been here for a particularly long time.
It was because she'd become part of my life so naturally that I hadn't noticed it happening until now.
Somewhere along the way she had stopped being a visitor.
She had become part of my routine.
I thought about high school.
It felt strange looking back on it now. At sixteen, I never would have guessed that the loud girl who talked her way into
