A walk to remember by Nicholas Sparks

Author:Nicholas Sparks [Nicholas Sparks]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Roman
ISBN: 9780446693806
Published: 2004-08-31T10:00:00+00:00

The next night we talked about her Bible.

“Why do you always carry it with you?” I asked.

Now, I assumed she carried the Bible around simply because she was the minister’s daughter. It wasn’t that big of an assumption, given how Hegbert felt about Scripture and all. But the Bible she carried was old and the cover was kind of ratty looking, and I figured that she’d be the kind of person who would buy a new one every year or so just to help out the Bible publishing industry or to show her renewed dedication to the Lord or something.

She walked a few steps before answering.

“It was my mother’s,” she said simply.

“Oh. . . .” I said it like I’d stepped on someone’s pet turtle, squashing it under my shoe.

She looked at me. “It’s okay, Landon. How could you have known?”

“I’m sorry I asked. . . .”

“Don’t be. You didn’t mean anything by it.” She paused. “My mother and father were given this Bible for their wedding, but my mom was the one who claimed it first. She read it all the time, especially whenever she was going through a hard time in her life.”

I thought about the miscarriages. Jamie went on.

“She loved to read it at night, before she went to sleep, and she had it with her in the hospital when I was born. When my father found out that she had died, he carried the Bible and me out of the hospital at the same time.”

“I’m sorry,” I said again. Whenever someone tells you something sad, it’s the only thing you can think to say, even if you’ve already said it before.

“It just gives me a way to...to be a part of her. Can you understand that?” She wasn’t saying it sadly, just more to let me know the answer to my question. Somehow that made it worse.

After she told me the story, I thought of her growing up with Hegbert again, and I didn’t really know what to say. As I was thinking about my answer, though, I heard a car blare its horn from behind us, and both Jamie and I stopped and turned around at the same time as we heard it pulling over to the side.

Eric and Margaret were in the car, Eric on the driver’s side, Margaret on the side closest to us.

“Well, lookee who we have here,” Eric said as he leaned over the steering wheel so that I could see his face. I hadn’t told him I’d been walking Jamie home, and in the curious way that teenage minds work, this new development took priority over anything that I was feeling about Jamie’s story.

“Hello, Eric. Hello, Margaret,” Jamie said cheerfully.

“Walking her home, Landon?” I could see the little devil behind Eric’s smile.

“Hey, Eric,” I said, wishing he’d never seen me.

“It’s a beautiful night for strolling, isn’t it?” Eric said. I think that because Margaret was between him and Jamie, he felt a little bolder than he usually was in Jamie’s presence.

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