She blinked, twice, obviously surprised. Ummm, she said, keeping her eyes on me. I don't know. - Sarah Dessen

It was like when you're a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-mart and it's just so startling, because it never occurred to you they existed outside of school.

I couldn't tell her. I couldn't tell anyone. As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real.

Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.