If You Could See Me Now by Cecelia Ahern

Author:Cecelia Ahern
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780007279531
Publisher: HarperCollins

Chapter 20

The weather had changed overnight. The past week of June sunshine had burned the grass, dried the soil and brought wasps in their thousands to swarm around and annoy everyone. Saturday evening it all changed. The sky darkened and the clouds had moved in. But that was typical Irish weather: one moment a heat wave and the next, gale-force winds. It was predictably unpredictable.

Elizabeth shivered in her bed and pulled her duvet up to her chin. She didn’t have the heating on and even though she needed it she refused to put it on during the summer months as a principle. Outside the trees shivered, their leaves tossed in the wind. They cast wild shadows across her bedroom walls. The fierce gusts blowing sounded like giant waves crashing against the cliffs. Inside, the doors rattled and shuddered. The bench in the garden swung back and forth, squeaking. Everything moved violently and sporadically; there was no rhythm and no sense of consistency.

Elizabeth wondered about Ivan. She wondered why she was feeling a pull towards him, and why every time she opened her mouth the world’s best- kept secrets flowed out. She wondered why she welcomed him into her home and into her head. Elizabeth loved to be alone – she didn’t crave companionship – but she craved Ivan’s companionship. She wondered if she should take a few steps back because of Fiona living only down the road. Wouldn’t her closeness to Ivan, albeit only a friendship, be disturbing for Sam and Fiona? She relied so much on Fiona to mind Luke at last- minute notice.

As usual, Elizabeth tried to ignore such thoughts. She tried to pretend that everything was the same as always, that there hadn’t been a shift within her, that her walls weren’t crumbling down and allowing in unwelcome guests. She didn’t want that to happen, she couldn’t deal with change.

Eventually she focused on the only thing that remained constant and unmoving in the determined gusts. And in return, the moon kept its watchful eye on her as she eventually fell into an uneasy sleep.

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