Flowers by Scott Nicholson

Author:Scott Nicholson [Nicholson, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Haunted Computer Books
Published: 2010-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

LUMINOSITY

Born half in darkness, half in hazy light, Kate started out different and stayed different.

Even in ninth grade, when all the girls had grown strange shapes and the boys had started sweating.

Even in a world where ordinary girls were all the rage, when you had to have three silver rings in your ear and another one in a secret, pierced place somewhere beneath your clothes. Somewhere to keep the boys guessing and sweating.

And somewhere for the other girls to wonder about, just in case their rings weren't in as cool a place.

But Kate wore no rings. Kate was brighter than silver, though her eyes were brown. She was so different, she had never dyed her hair. She was so different, she was a princess who had never kissed a frog in hopes of turning him into a prince.

Well, never kissed a frog if you didn’t count Jeremy as a frog. Because Kate had just kissed Jeremy. Under the moon. A moon she had built, looked up and said, "Give me a moon," and there it was, white and blue and cold, and there was Jeremy, big and cute and maybe his eyes were saying hello.

And the night was black and purple, a sprinkle of salt marking stars in the sky, Jeremy, lips, oh God, she couldn't breathe, this was so corny.

Because she didn't want to kiss a guy. Who cared if Jeremy was a junior? She was fourteen and happy. She was out of it. She didn't even own a cell phone.

Kate was the luckiest girl in the world, because she only owned the moon.

"Come on," Jeremy said.

Kate shook her head. Her back was against the bricks of the old movie theater, the streetlights as distant as the bright pinprick of Jupiter.

Jeremy's breath was sardines. "Are you going to kiss me or not? Don't tell me you dragged me all the way out here for this?"

"I just want to talk," she said.

"Talk? I can talk with any girl. And do even more with some of them."

"Jeremy. Don't pressure me."

"Pressure you?" He kissed her again, his tongue like a frog's going after a bug. He pulled away and held Kate at arm's length. Under the moon, his eyes were as dark as beetles.

"I need a little time," she said.

"I'll give you all the time you need," Jeremy said, putting his arms around Kate and pulling her against him. She tried to go soft against his muscles. He was strong. He usually got his way with things.

"Not like this," she said, but his hand was already on her bra strap.

She looked past Jeremy's shoulder at the moon. A moon she had built from dreams and wishes. A moon so far away, yet all in her head at the same time. Kate the moonbeam queen, Mom had called her.

Because she made the moon rise. When all the girls in her class were asleep, she closed her eyes and became far too awake and thought about the moon on its invisible string. She pulled

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