Dissonance by Erica O'Rourke

Author:Erica O'Rourke
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

After our bath, I felt strangely powerful. It wasn’t physical strength, since we both managed to drain our bodies completely, but a deeper sort of might. I’d been afraid of showing myself to Charlotte that way, afraid she would see how deep in this I already was and that it would freak her out. I’d never really known rejection. I’d never put myself out there in a situation where I could be rejected in any way that meant something to me. For Charlotte, though, I had no choice.

Lying on the couch with her, warming each other from the bath that had turned frigid while we were otherwise occupied, I felt complete. I didn’t have her whole story or those secrets she tried to hide, but I had her. The rest would come.

Her head rested just below mine, that floral scent that drove me mad filling my nose. I felt my cock twitch as she shifted next to me. There was no getting another round out of him for a while, so I didn’t need to find anything to distract myself from the girl in my arms. I took a little while just to savor the unfamiliar peace I was experiencing before I spoke.

“We have something serious to discuss.”

She turned onto her back and eyed me curiously.

“Eli,” I said. “I need the dirt, babe. He’ met my family and some of my buddies from high school. He’s gotten all my embarrassing stories. Now, it’s my turn to do some digging.”

A chuckle rolled through her as she turned to settle her back against me again. “Oh, I have plenty of that. What do you want? Childhood? High school?”

“Whatever’s best.”

“When he was 9, he saw some made-for-T.V. movie about some serial killer. He was scared shitless. He came to my room and dragged me out of bed in the middle of the night. He barricaded us in the bathroom.”

I snickered. “Hiding from a killer in the tub?”

“Just wait,” she continued, “you haven’t heard the best part, yet. He didn’t bring me along to protect me. He climbed in the tub with his teddy bear and told me to watch the door. If someone did come, they’d take me and he’d be fine.”

I couldn’t control my laughter now. Mr. Protective-Older-Brother sure did get off to a good start.

“Mom found us in the morning. When she tried to wake him, he started screaming ‘take her, take her!’ That’s when she realized I’d slept on the tile floor to be bait.

“Eli was grounded for two weeks, one for watching T.V. after he was supposed to be in bed, and another for willing offering me up to some deranged killer. He also had to sit through a lecture from Mom about how big brothers are supposed to protect their sisters. He drew me a card to apologize. He doesn’t know it, but I still have a messy card that says ‘I’m sorry I made you sleep in the bathroom.’”

Hearing Charlotte talk about Eli was something else. She was so carefree in those moments.

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