I laughed.
“You’ll have to eventually.”
“No.”
She shook her head dramatically.
“These are staying forever.”
Three weeks later, she disappeared.
And our lives ended with her.
It happened on an ordinary Tuesday afternoon.
Hannah had piano practice after school.
The music teacher lived only a few blocks away.
She had walked home that route dozens of times.
That day, she left the lesson at 5:10 p.m.