How Sweet the Sound by Evelyn Dar

Author:Evelyn Dar [Dar, Evelyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance
Published: 2018-04-11T23:00:00+00:00

Liz hopped off her bike and wondered if she needed glasses. She rubbed her eyes and blinked repeatedly. Nope, she was seeing just fine. She walked to her front step and sat.

“Rough day at the office?” Liz asked.

Kat laid her head on Liz’s shoulder and moaned. “I’m sorry for being a creeper and showing up like this.”

Liz chuckled. “It’s cool, but how’d you know where I lived?”

Kat covered her face with her hands and peered through her fingers. “I may have abused my power as a peer counselor.”

Liz raised an eyebrow.

“I told Ms. Lee we arranged for a training session tonight at my house, but I forgot my dad was having friends over and I couldn’t reach you to reschedule.”

Liz laughed. “How deceitful of you, Katherine. I’m so proud.”

Kat smacked Liz’s thigh. “Hey, it was half true. I’ve been calling you for over an hour.”

“I was working.”

Kat lifted her head but remained shoulder to shoulder with Liz. “You have a job?”

Liz shrugged. “I wait tables at Drake’s.”

“The bar?” Kat asked.

“And grill,” Liz said. “But yeah, it’s not so bad.”

Kat nodded, and they lapsed into silence. Liz searched for something to say that didn’t involve the gossip she’d heard in the locker room. She looked at her lonely bike in the driveway.

“So, where’s your car?” Liz asked.

Kat stared at her hands. “I don’t have one.”

Liz mentally kicked herself. Kat’s family was far from poor, but she knew Laurie’s medical care must be costing a small fortune.

“It’s not the money,” Kat said.

Liz’s ears burned. “I wasn’t thinking that.”

“Yes, you were.” Kat smiled. “My dad’s retired air force so the military covers my mom’s hospital bills.”

“Oh.”

Liz could feel Kat staring at her. She coughed and fiddled with her keys.

“Liz?”

“Yeah?”

“We’re friends.”

“Yeah.”

“So,” Kat said, “if you want to know something about me, you’re allowed to ask. And I might even tell you.” Kat winked.

Liz rolled her eyes. “Alright, princess. Why no car?”

Kat scooted even closer to Liz and once again laid her head on Liz’s shoulder. “When I was nine, I saw one of my friends get hit by a car.”

Kat’s eyes watered, and Liz instinctually wrapped an arm around her.

“It’s okay, you don’t have to tell me.”

“I know,” Kat said. “But I want to tell you. I um, want you to know stuff about me.” Kat looked at Liz for a moment. “But if you don’t want to kn–”

“I do.”

Kat took a deep breath. “His name was Ricky. We were playing freeze tag. Casey and Allen too.” Kat slid her arm around Liz’s back and leaned fully into the embrace. “It was my fault. I froze him in the middle of the street. When I went to unfreeze him, I turned around and”–Kat swallowed–“I tried to scream, but I couldn’t make a sound. The crunch when he hit the windshield…I dreamt that sound for so long.”

“Did he…”

Kat shook her head. “But he never walked again. His family moved to Durham a few months later. They have one of the best hospitals for kids. I

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