Defy the Dark by Saundra Mitchell

Author:Saundra Mitchell
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

At that point it just became about waiting for the dawn. The screams of our fellow park-goers had dwindled, so now we were left with moans.

Wylie settled into the car behind us but Bart was more restless, moving about and even venturing onto the tracks, though he never went very far.

Sarah leaned against me, her breath alternating between the hiccuping aftereffects of sobs and the regular rhythm of sleep. I thought about the rides we’d taken just hours ago. How it’d been the most alive I’d ever felt.

“If you had to go now—if this was it—would you have any regrets?” I found myself asking.

“Virginity,” Wylie said almost immediately, and I started to laugh, even as I became hyperaware of exactly how Sarah draped herself over me, her head cradled in my lap. His response made her grin, her nose crinkling up just a bit like it always did when she was truly happy.

“Does coming here tonight count?” Bart shouted from a few cars back, and then he was laughing as well. For a moment it drowned out the sounds of moans.

Sarah blew out a short breath. “I wish I’d studied less and snuck out more, but then again, who could have figured a four point oh GPA would become so worthless so quickly?” She shifted her focus to me, asking, “What about you?”

Everyone else’s answers had been flippant and light, but I felt a different kind of pressure building in my chest, and I knew that if I didn’t say it now it would become the thing I’d regret most.

I brushed the backs of my knuckles along Sarah’s cheek, twisting a stray strand of hair around my thumb. “I wish I’d told the girl next door that I’d fallen in love with her.”

At the end of the train of cars Bart snickered and Wylie just grunted before heaving himself free and going back to join him, leaving Sarah and me alone. Her lips were parted and I could just catch the hint of the edge of her teeth.

“Really?” It was a question voiced along an exhale.

I nodded. “Years ago. Maybe even forever.”

She maneuvered around the safety bar until she was straddling my lap, her knees pushed into the depths of the bucket seats. “You should have said something before.” She placed her hands on my shoulders and then slid them down my back.

“I was too afraid.”

Her lips covered mine but this time there wasn’t the thrill of racing along the roller coaster, wind whipping her hair around us. Now there was a desperation, a longing deeper than I’d ever felt.

I took her hips, my fingers pressing against the curve of flesh, and wished I could forget about Bart and Wylie only a few yards behind us. Wished I could forget the dead scattered below.

Wished we could have been, even if for just a few heartbeats, the last people on Earth.

She said something in my ear I couldn’t understand and I traced my fingers up her spine, under her shirt, reveling in the feel of her flesh.

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