Counting Stars by David Almond

Author:David Almond
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780375890109
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2002-04-23T04:00:00+00:00

I walked with Mick through the mist to Felling Square. I could still smell her, feel her skin, hear her breath in my ear. Mick trembled and skipped in excitement.

“Wow,” he kept saying. “Wow. How far’d you go?” he said.

I smiled.

“Far enough.”

“Aye. Far enough.”

We smoked a cigarette beside the fountain, then went our separate ways into the gloom.

“You weren’t at the vigil,” said Mam as I entered the house.

I turned my eyes down.

“Your faith’s your most precious thing,” she said.

“I know that.”

I felt sure they must catch the smell of Theresa that surrounded me. I stared at our statues and angels. A rosary lay in a little heap on the mantelpiece.

“I was talking about your Tibetan bloke in the club,” said Dad. “It seems he’s a Kerry man that’s not set foot outside Ireland.”

“I’ve seen that. Nobody’s certain, though.”

He smiled.

“He’s the real thing to you.”

“Yes.”

That night as I slept I traveled over Felling. Theresa raised her arms to welcome me. Our bodies mingled like breath in mist, like angels are supposed to, like astral bodies must.

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