Finding Home by Sybil Smith

Author:Sybil Smith
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-04-21T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

The clouds burst as Danny ran. Rain poured in sheets, drenching her and making her hair run in ropes and her clothes cling to her skin. It wasn’t a warm, summer rain; it was cold, icy, the kind that hails a twister around the corner. Although it was only early evening, the sky was black. The clouds hung low and menacing. She ran until it felt like her heart would burst, until she felt sick and her legs trembled with effort. She wished she could simply keep on running all the way until she found a solution.

Danny finally came to a stop in the middle of somebody’s corn field, sobbing over the sound of thunder. Danny cried for all that she had lost, for how badly it had turned out. She hadn’t been ready to tell Thompson, and it felt like she had been thrown overboard into an ocean when she didn’t know how to swim. She screamed her anger and frustration at the sky, furious with Thompson, furious with a world who did not want to accept her, much less try to understand. It was only when she began to shiver violently that she finally began making her way back to the road.

As Danny walked back to the house, shoes and pants becoming horribly muddy and heavy, she realized she could not go inside. She would rather sleep all night in the thunderstorm than set foot in that house tonight. Her tears mixed with the rain, and she felt the worst she had ever felt in her entire life—that included getting thrown from a horse.

She pulled her keys out of her pocket and climbed in her truck, not caring if she soaked the seats and got the floor all dirty. Her fingers turned the keys and she started toward an unknown destination.

After driving down nearly every road in town twice, Danny found that she still couldn’t bring herself to return home. Instead, she steered herself straight to April’s house and collapsed into the other woman’s arms as soon as she opened the door.

“Oh Danny,” April whispered whenever she saw her blotchy, puffy face and soaking wet clothes.

They had clung to each other for a long time, not speaking. April rubbed her small hands up and down Danny’s back.

“Shh, shh. You’re here now,” she kept whispering. “You’re here.”

The kindness only made Danny sob harder.

Whatever their faults, they could forgive each other, and whatever storms would come their way, they could face them, as long as they were together. They cried, from the tension that had finally broken, from a moment that could never be taken away, and from the knowledge that each loved the other so much that it could physically hurt.

Once they parted from their embrace, April wordlessly got a clean set of clothes for Danny and started a hot shower for her. She tossed the dirty clothes in the washing machine and began making tea on the stove while Danny soaked. When Danny left the shower, she

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