Dirty Fraud by Eden Beck

Author:Eden Beck [Beck, Eden]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult
Goodreads: 46404893
Published: 2019-07-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

All the world is soft and blue.

My mind goes back over the torturous days and nights I’ve had at school, the days and months and years that I suffered through one foster home after another, over and over again with no base, no home, no real family, no one who cared for me. This has been all of my life, from the very beginning.

If I haven’t found a place in this world by now, I don’t think that I ever will.

There’s a small part of me that knows I’m not in my right mind. But it’s a small part. Too small.

I don’t know the exact moment I inhale water. I just know that I feel a terrible, sharp pain inside me and a sudden awareness overtakes me.

I’m drowning. Really drowning.

This isn’t like before, on the boat. I was just afraid I might drown then. Now, I really am. My body thrashes and my eyesight blackens at the corners, but when I close them, I see a confusing display of disjointed colors. That yawning, stabbing, terrible pain squeezes at my insides just as something strong and firm wraps around my waist.

I can’t see. I can’t even register what’s happening. One moment I am drowning and dying and the next I’m being pulled from the water. I feel solid ground beneath me, but somehow, I’m still drowning.

A mouth closes over mine and forces oxygen into me, and then something heavy presses down in repetition on my chest, and I choke out all the water that was in me. It pours out like a fountain, leaving my body burning from the inside out. I gasp in air and try to open my eyes, but as I do that, I am crushed against the solid wall of a chest, and wrapped in strong, warm arms.

It takes me a moment to realize that the arms and chest are trembling; shaking just a bit, and I push my head back so that I can see who is holding me. I look up into stormy-blue eyes framed by long blonde waves of hair.

“Wills …?” I ask in a whisper. I can’t believe it’s him. Maybe I died and went to a new world after all. It seems an awful lot like the one I was in, except for the boy holding me so tightly to me and weeping. He’s weeping?

“You’re crying!” I blink in wonder and lift my fingers to his face to wipe at the tears mingling with droplets of pool water. He shakes his head and I can see so much pain and misery pouring from him.

“What is it with you trying to die at that stupid Halloween party every year?” he smarts off to me, but I can hear the earnest compassion and care in his voice, and I am dumbfounded.

“What are you doing here?”

He reaches a hand to my face and gently pushes my wet hair away.

Wills searches my eyes with his for a moment before speaking. “I just couldn’t take it anymore.

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