I'll Be Seeing You by Beth Rinyu

Author:Beth Rinyu [Rinyu, Beth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

August

I decided to pay my grandmother a visit, since I hadn’t gone on Monday. I waited until after work in hopes of avoiding my father, and as much as I hated to admit it, Olivia. It wasn’t because I didn’t want to see her—quite the opposite. It was because I didn’t know what to say to her. The other night had been intense. I didn’t expect her to tell me she’d been feeling the same way about me as I was for her, and more than anything, I didn’t expect to kiss her again. The lines had been blurred and everything was so confusing between us now. Then there was Danielle. She’d been calling and texting me nonstop, wanting to get together so we could talk. I knew talk in her language meant manipulate to get her way. I foolishly agreed to meet her for coffee in the morning, but little did she know the extent of my talking was to reassure her that we were 100 percent over.

I managed to make it up to my grandmother’s room without any trace of my father. I didn’t see his car outside and was hoping that he and Queen Simone were off doing what they did best, hobnobbing with people they deemed more important than the rest of us. The nurse who was taking care of my grandmother was the exact opposite of Olivia. She was older and seemed to be all business.

“Matthew!” my grandmother greeted when I entered her room.

I smiled back, deciding to play along and be her brother for my visit.

“Grace isn’t here. Where did she go?” she asked her nurse.

“I don’t know who Grace is.” She shook her head.

“It’s the nurse who takes care of her during the day,” I clarified.

“I thought her name was Olivia,” the nurse replied.

“It is.”

“Oh…” She finally caught on. “Yes, Grace went home for the day.” She finally cracked a smile.

“How are you today?” I asked, taking a seat next to my grandmother.

She took my hands in hers and her eyes lit up. “How was your date?”

“My date?”

“Yes, with Grace.” She sounded agitated. “She said she was meeting you for a date. You didn’t throw stones at my window, so I guess you were able to sneak in without Mother and Father seeing you?”

“Yeah. I was.” I played along.

“Please take care of her, Matthew. You love each other so, and I don’t want her to die.” My grandmother’s voice cracked with emotion.

I creased my eyes in confusion. My grandmother rarely spoke of her brother when she was of sound mind. “Why would you think she’s going to die?”

She reached up and touched my face. “But you’re here too, so maybe it was all a bad dream.” Her expression changed from being full of emotion to blank, and I knew I wasn’t going to get any more from her, even though I had so much more to ask.

“I’m so tired. Please can I go to bed?” she asked her nurse.

“Sure, Mrs. Fitzpatrick.”

“Tell this nice boy he has to go.

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