Death, and the Girl He Loves by Jones Darynda

Author:Jones, Darynda [Jones, Darynda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 2013-10-08T06:00:00+00:00

NO PRESSURE

After things settled down, I explained exactly how I did what I did. Mac was worried about the possibility of an honest-to-goodness concussion, so Jared and Cameron brought out one of the cots we had set up in the archive room.

“She might have a concussion already,” Brooke said. “She hit hard. Either her head split or the floor. Not sure which.”

“Yeah, well, I’m not as hardheaded as you are. And by the feel of things, it was my head and not the floor.”

“Then you gave it a run for its money, I can tell you that much. Quite the combatant today,” she added with a soft laugh.

Grandma lowered the lights a little as Jared took my hand and helped me lie down on the cot.

“I’m not sure I can do this with everyone standing around.”

“Sure you can,” Kenya said, excited about the prospect of watching.

“No, she’s right,” Granddad said.

“That’s okay.” Mr. Henderson waved a hand. “We’ll go. Just let us know what you find out.”

Mr. Henderson was one of the members furious with my grandparents for sending me away. I wasn’t sure how to feel about him now. While I understood his misgivings on one level, I couldn’t help but hold a certain amount of resentment toward him, toward all of those who gave my grandparents a hard time while I was gone. It was probably best that he leave.

Everyone except my family members and best friends left. Unfortunately, that did little to relieve my doubt.

“Okay, Pix, how’s this?” Mac asked as he knelt beside me.

“Great. No pressure, right?”

He grinned that charming grin of his. “None at all. If this doesn’t work, that’s okay, honey.”

Glitch handed me the sketchbook. “Good luck,” he said.

I nodded.

“You can do this,” Brooke said. She took the seat that Grandma had set beside the cot.

Cameron stood at the foot of the cot while Jared stood at the head. I tilted my head back and looked at him. He winked at me. Even upside down, that guy could stop a heart with one grin. Actually, he probably could stop a heart with one grin, since that was his job and all. He was so handsome, though. So magnificent. God took his time on that one.

“We’ll be right here,” he said.

They were there for a reason. If I did have a seizure or whatever it was that happened before, my grandparents didn’t want me getting hurt, so I had bodyguards of a sort.

Nervousness tingled inside me as I took the sketch and looked it over again. It really was rudimentary. Embarrassment washed through me for the umpteenth time, and I realized Kenya was right. I really needed to get over myself.

I siphoned cool air in through my nose and out through my mouth in concentration. I needed to go further back this time. I wanted to see my parents. Or not. This was the most painful day of my existence. The day they disappeared. Did I really want to see that again?

Just getting into the picture would be hard enough.

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