Back to Yesterday by Pamela Sparkman

Author:Pamela Sparkman [Sparkman, Pamela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01EBHRF64
Published: 2016-05-01T23:00:00+00:00

~ London Grammar

Strong

I sat in my truck across the street from the café and thought about all that had happened in the last couple of months. Through the windows, I could see Sophie working, laughing with Elizabeth and conversing with her customers.

The holidays had come and gone and I’d spent them with Sophie and her parents. For Christmas, I had given Sophie a book my mother had kept of famous quotes and poems. Words that she had read over the years that had influenced her in some way, and as a tribute, she had copied them down and passed it on to me. I don’t know why I had given it to Sophie. I suppose it was me wanting to share my mother with the woman I’d given my heart to. They would never meet but giving Sophie the book felt like a form of introduction into the heart and mind of my mom.

Sophie had stared at the book when she opened it, and after I had told her what it was, she held it in her hands like it was the most precious thing she had ever touched. I knew then that I had done the right thing and it would be in good hands.

She had given me a present, too. A painting of the sky… like the one I had described to her, only a better version of it. The majority of the painting was dark with breaks of light shining in between the cracks. It was ominous and hopeful, devilish and angelic, fearful and fearless.

It was perfect.

On New Year’s Eve, I’d taken Sophie dancing to a swanky place in the city. She most liked swing dancing, and I liked swinging her around. I wore my uniform and she wore a pale pink dress that showed more leg than her usual dresses. I wasn’t complaining either. Her shoes were red and she wore her hair down in soft, silky waves, pinned away from her face on one side. She was a picture of perfection.

Sophie and I danced the Lindy Hop to a live band on stage. And at one point there was a Jitterbug contest. My chest swelled just thinking about how much Sophie smiled while we tried to out dance all the others. She beamed like the moon and it was magnificent. We didn’t win, but I didn’t much care. All that mattered to me was having fun with Sophie, and that night will always be one of my favorite memories. At the stroke of midnight, I kissed her long and deep, and I’d made a wish on that kiss that the coming year would be everything we needed it to be.

Now, here we were with the holidays behind us, a new year beginning, and I wasn’t going to be able to share it with her.

White knuckling the steering wheel, I thought back on the promises I’d made to Sophie, in front of her parents no less. I’d promised her that I wouldn’t leave, that I was staying here.

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