A Summer of Chances by Roxanne Tully

Author:Roxanne Tully [Tully, Roxanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Roxanne Tully
Published: 2019-11-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

Friday morning, I woke up to an eager knock on my door. I jerked up from my bed and turned to Rachel. She was out cold and didn’t hear a thing. I couldn’t imagine how anyone could sleep through that. I imagined a child screaming for help in the pool and Rachel daydreaming away on her lifeguard chair.

Glancing at the alarm clock on our shared night stand, I saw that it was 7:20 a.m. I got out of bed and slipped into my thongs. I pulled open the door to find Rick standing on the other side of it with a goofy grin on his face. I blinked a few times to make sure I wasn’t imagining things.

“Hi,” he greeted with a big grin.

I stared at him in disbelief. Since our morning class was combined and moved to the evening for a sunset camping class that Sarah had talked us into, Rick and I had the luxury of sleeping in until ten today. He gave me a once-over. I followed and realized I was wearing my pink sleeping shorts and a black bra tank.

“Throw something on. I want to show you something,” he said excitedly.

I blinked once. “Wait here.” Not bothering to question his eagerness, I simply shut the door and switched my pink shorts for a pair or leggings and threw my white college sweatshirt over the black tank.

We drove for only seven minutes. I hadn’t bothered asking him where we were going. I was just glad he had a cup of hot coffee waiting for me in his black Jeep.

He pulled out of the highway and circled around a secluded circular driveway that seemed like a lookout. From the looks of it, it wasn’t very popular this early in the morning, but the sun was out, and it had a decent view.

Rick dashed around the car to open the door for me. I regretfully placed my coffee back in the cup holder and jumped out. He led me toward the edge of the elevated highway, where there was a lineup of large rocks over the rusty silver-metal railing. He climbed over and reached for my hand. I peered over to check the distance from where we stood to the river below us and, without hesitation, followed.

“What did you want to show me?”

“That.” He pointed to a city across the river. And it didn’t take me long to see what he was pointing at. It so vividly stood out from its bright surroundings.

Gray mists of rain fell across the plains in somewhat of a funnel shape. You could see the storms miles away. There were three visible from where we stood. Each one seemed as if it could have been sketched with a pencil and then smudged onto a perfectly painted landscape. The light coming from behind the clouds almost contradicted what was happening on the surface. It was bright and close, as if the sun was waiting to make its entrance. Above those three dark clouds, you could see a brand-new day waiting to unfold.

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