“Show me,” Katrina whispered.
And later, when they drove to the beach for the first time together, Katrina borrowed Laura’s pen and wrote on her own palm: lauraloveskatrina
In high school, the phrase evolved. It appeared in the condensation on Laura’s bathroom mirror after a shower. It was scratched into the bark of the oak tree behind the football field where they’d sit after practice. lauraloveskatrina was written in the margins of Laura’s chemistry notebook, disguised among the formulas for molarity and atomic mass. “Show me,” Katrina whispered