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Sara. Hopefully Deborah would decide before the state worker arrived the following day to take the girl. It helped that she and Jack were inseparable since the wake at Reddy’s.
    Her mom would end up keeping the teenage girl, she knew. Amelia Warren owned the antique shop next to her jewelry store and her son was bringing over another twin bed to go in her room. Lindsay was confused about Amelia’s words earlier about some gift Jace bought for her. She received no gift and wondered if the old lady was getting senile.
    Cam pulled into the lot. She smiled and walked down the stairs to meet him. He was a regular visitor since the funeral and the greatest source of comfort to her. Just being with him, made her feel a little closer to Jace. He grinned as he drew up in his dad’s new black Mustang, music blaring. He turned down the radio and grinned at her.
    “School skipper! Hey, when you coming back to school? Everybody is all over me.”
    Lindsay’s smile faded. She couldn’t do that now. “I got all my work turned in and made arrangements to take my finals. I’m not going back, Cam. I can’t do it.”
    “Lindsay, he’s gone. I miss him too. He would be ticked to know you gave up the last weeks of school to cry over him.”
    She stiffened, angry now. Jace had been gone a week and Cam acted like it was no big deal.
    “I can’t take those looks everybody is giving me now. Feeling sorry for me. Mrs. Abbott said all my teachers agree I’m ok to take finals early. You’re just jealous you have to go another month.”
    Cam laughed and his fingers tapped on the door. “It won’t matter for me. The grades won’t change.”
    Lindsay knew Cam would graduate by the skin of his teeth. His best hope was to get picked up by a headhunter from a college for football. Cam had always joked about being Coach Dawes second choice. She knew now that Jace was gone Cam was a shoo-in for the scholarship.
    “You see Evie around town?”
    “Nah, we were in Hooligan’s last night and he wasn’t there. Why?”
    “I ordered a headstone for Jace. They need a family member to sign off for approval before they can put the order through.”
    “Good luck with that. I heard Evie is takin’ it pretty bad.”
    Lindsay made a disgusted sound. “Considering he didn’t show at his own son’s funeral, I’m not surprised.”
    “They condemned the farm today.”
    Lindsay stiffened, knowing that was inevitable. “I already took Dougie and Sara out there to get all their stuff and whatever they wanted to save. I’m not surprised.”
    “Lindsay, are you still going to Georgia in the fall?”
    “My plans haven’t changed. I need to get out of here.”
    “Maybe we will be seeing each other down there. Coach Dawes said the scholarship is open now. He offered it to me.”
    Lindsay felt tears in her eyes. Why would she be surprised? Life went on, even if Jace was gone. Still, it had been only a week. Now Cam was being offered everything Jace lost.
    “Are you going to take it?”
    Cam frowned and avoided her gaze. “I got all kind of offers now. Georgia Tech is a good school. My dad said we should look at all the offers.”
    Lindsay felt a bitter surge of anger, even if she was happy for Cam. Jace dying opened the door for him. She tried to calm down, knowing it was unreasonable for her to feel this way.
    Jace and Cam were best friends since the fifth grade. He would have wanted Cam to have everything he was willing to give up. She suddenly thought of the argument he had with Marnie the day of the funeral.
    “What’s up with you and Marnie?” she asked and saw him stiffen slightly.
    “We broke up and she doesn’t get it,” Cam said and shrugged. “She was runnin’ around with Dooley and I caught her. It’s for the best. She isn’t ever getting out of Little Bend.”
    “I’m sorry, Cam.”
    “Don’t be. I’m not. I can’t wait to get out of here.”
    Lindsay could see Cam meant what he said. He couldn’t wait to leave. “I