Black Snow by Lena North

Author:Lena North [North, Lena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: FAB Publishing
Published: 2017-10-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Go with the good guy, Snow.

I turned back toward the room and realized that nothing good would come from staying there. We’d continue to argue, and likely say things that were unforgivable, and I didn’t want that. It would be better to leave and try to pick up whatever we could later. I moved a little and Nick put an arm around my waist, but I pushed against him, to get us moving backward.

“Snow,” Dante said hoarsely.

The pain in my cousin’s eyes was almost more than I could bear, and I needed to get out of there before I broke down in tears.

“I get to choose my own life,” I whispered as we moved.

“You don’t know who he is,” Dante protested, but I immediately hit him with everything that I had in me.

“I know exactly who he is,” I said loudly, and stopped moving.

Then I opened my mind up widely to him, tilting my head back a little, and lowering my eyelids until I watched my cousin through narrow slits.

I knew Dante could read my thoughts, but Nick had said he pushed pictures to the dolphins and this was what I did. The look on my cousin’s face told me he saw them.

I started by showing him how I closed my mind to him, and how I continued to scream and weep all alone out on the open sea, or on secluded islands in the river outside Marshes. I showed him the black, ugly snake resting in my belly, and what I did to battle life when it reared its ugly head. He paled when I pushed pictures of free diving, climbing, and jumping, getting more and more reckless each time. I hadn’t thought about my first base jump in a long time, but I showed him how I slammed into the ground, coming down way too fast and in an area with too many obstacles. There were cuts and bruises I’d hidden from him and through it all my endless grief.

He made a hoarse sound, but as I kept bombarding my cousin with the parts of my life he hadn’t known about, Nick started being part of the pictures. He was there to stop me from climbing in the rain, taking us back to a safe harbor when a storm hit, climbing beneath me when that rusty anchor fell from the cliff and laughing with me over sandwiches and water afterward. Finally, I showed Dante the days I’d been on the Islands, my scooter that Nick had asked to get de-tuned, the helmet he made me wear, how my osprey cooed like a silly dove when he petted her, and that lonely tear on his cheek when he talked about Tommy. I ended it by holding a picture of Nick grinning down at me in my mind. The sun was high in the sky, so he was squinting a little, but there were warmth and laughter in his eyes. He was so beautiful.

“That’s enough, Snow,” Joao suddenly murmured at my side.

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