Georgia on My Mind

Author:Force, Marie [Force, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Marie Sullivan Force
Published: 2011-09-21T16:00:00+00:00

After breakfast at a diner on Thames Street, they took his car to the hospital, but Georgie insisted on driving.

“I didn’t know it was possible for one person to eat that much in the morning.”

He patted his full belly. “I’m a growing boy.”

“No wonder why you run every day.” After a long period of silence, she glanced over at him. “Can I ask you something that’s probably none of my business?”

“Sure.”

“Why are you still single?”

“Don’t you mean—how is it possible that someone with my stellar good looks, charm, sense of humor, and overall sex appeal could still be on the market?”

He had nailed it perfectly, but she wasn’t about to let him know that, so she rolled her eyes. “Give me a break, will you, please?”

Laughing, he shrugged. “Just worked out that way.”

“You’ve never wanted to get married?”

“I didn’t say that.”

“Fine,” she said, more annoyed with herself than with him. Why did it matter so much? If she allowed herself to contemplate the answer to that question . . . “Forget I asked.”

“There was someone once. I probably would’ve married her.”

“Except?”

“She died.”

Georgie gasped and took her eyes off the road to look over at him. “Oh God, Nathan. I’m so sorry.”

“It was a long time ago.”

But something in his tone told her the pain was still a big part of him.

Her head spun with questions, but she couldn’t seem to find the words.

“You can ask, Georgie,” he said quietly.

“No, I can’t. It’s not my place.”

He reached for her hand. “I met her during my freshman year of college, and we dated for a couple of years.”

Riveted by his softly spoken words, she pulled into the hospital parking lot, turned off the car and shifted in her seat to face him. “What was her name?”

“Ellen.”

Georgie bit back the litany of questions she wanted to ask and waited for him to comport himself.

“We were on Christmas break during our junior year, and we went to a party on Dixon Street. To get to the place, you had to go up a flight of outdoor stairs. When we were leaving, I ran back in to go to the bathroom and left her talking to some people on the landing.”

Georgie held on tight to his hand, her stomach knotting with anxiety.

“I was only gone for like two minutes, but when I came back she was crumpled at the bottom of the stairs, and the other people were gone.”

Georgie gasped.

“She was on life support for a month before her parents made the decision to let her go. I took that semester off from school and became totally obsessed with finding out what happened to her. Was she pushed? Or did she slip on some ice after the others went back inside?”

“Did you ever find out?”

He shook his head. “I was only gone for two minutes—the only two minutes of my life I’d give anything to have back. It just felt so random, you know? If I hadn’t gone back in, she would still be alive. We’d probably be married, with kids.

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