Hardcore Volume 3 by Staci Hart

Author:Staci Hart [Hart, Staci]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Promise Socks Publishing
Published: 2015-03-19T07:00:00+00:00

The sun was high that afternoon and even though there was a chill, I’d pulled off my hoodie and stuffed it in my pack as we ran. I followed Erin around air ducts on a cluster of roofs where we’d been playing, mimicking her movement as she wound and tricked around them, flipping and posing. She dove between vents and rolled, took off to run up a wall and into a backflip. I skidded to a stop, laughing as I tried to catch my breath, and pulled my water bottle out of my pack.

She smiled as she paced around, waiting for me with her hands on her hips. She took off again as soon as I was ready to follow.

“Let’s hit Pier 84, yeah?” Erin called over her shoulder.

“Yeah.” We took off toward Chelsea, spanning block after block until Erin slowed to a stop at a ledge, chest heaving as she looked across the street. I stepped to the edge and froze when I saw what she was looking at.

Workers in cherry pickers were hanging banners on the light posts for an art show at a nearby gallery, an urban art collection featuring artists from all over the city. But that wasn’t what hit me in the chest. It was the billboard that hung on the building across the street.

It was one of the photos from Van’s gallery, one of him, I knew. His features were shrouded in shadows as he hung off a building, hundreds of feet over the city, but I could feel him, recognized every curve of his body. My heart ached at the sight, kicking up everything that had happened just when I thought the dust was settling. That fifteen-foot image of him was just more than I could handle.

I shook my head and bolted. Erin was on my heels as we ran through Chelsea, though my joy had been stolen, my mind agonizing over the past, over the things I couldn’t change, the mistakes I’d made in a sick loop as I ran my body into the ground.

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