Chapter27: 27

FILTHY WITH THE DAD NEXT DOOR AVA   I looked down at the notebook I’d been scribbling in. My teacher droned on about our bright futures and how excited she was for us, but I tuned her out and instead found enough free space on the page to write my name once more. Satisfied, I looked over my handiwork. I’d scrawled my name on every available space. Well, the name I hoped to have one day. Mrs. David Emerson Mrs. Ava Emerson Ava Emerson I sighed and shut my notebook before my best friend could see. She’d never let me live it down if she knew I had a crush on my next-door neighbor. It wasn’t just that he was more than twice our age. Leslie, his daughter, was actually a good friend of ours. She’d graduated last year and left for college, but we’d all grown up together. I’d spent more time at the Emerson house over the summers growing up than I did my own. Mr. Emerson was good friends with my parents, especially since his divorce five years ago. I couldn’t remember a time when he wasn’t in m