She shrugged.
“So I moved here,” she said. “Got a job at the hospital in Salina. Night shifts. I rent a little house four miles down the road. Elmer calls me when it happens. I’m usually here in ten minutes.”
“You moved your whole life here,” I said. “For her.”
Gabby looked at me like I’d said something strange.
Ezoic
“She caught me,” she said simply. “In a bathtub. With no roof. In a tornado. With a flashlight in her teeth.” She stood up. She brushed off her scrubs. “Now it’s my turn to catch her.”
Ezoic
Elmer gave us Room 9.
On the house. He wouldn’t take our money. He tried to give back my sixty-two dollars. I wouldn’t take it.
“Keep it,” I said. “For Room 18.”
He looked at me for a long moment. Then he nodded. He put the money in an envelope and wrote 18 on the front and put it in a drawer.
