Life is Strange by Brittney Morris

Author:Brittney Morris
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Titan

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The trek back up to Clover Biggs’ house is harder than it was yesterday, and I can’t decide if it’s because I was with Steph yesterday, or because yesterday I didn’t have soreness creeping into every muscle below my waist.

If I’m going to be standing on stage for hours at a time rockin’ out on my guitar, I’ve gotta get better stamina than this.

Step after step, I feel the burn in my quads grow, and I wonder if I’m doing the right thing. Maybe Steph was right. Here I am, two days into my stay in a brand-new town, waltzing up to the Mayor’s house, following a trail in the woods to an abandoned bench where I’m supposed to meet a stranger who’s also a pretty famous candidate for the Colorado Senate seat.

Yeah, this is crazy.

I look up and see the house, larger now than when I first started my walk of course, but still far off. I take a deep breath and remember Gabe. I think of what he would say to me.

Something like, You can’t see injustice and do nothing about it.

No…

No, that’s what I’d say to me.

Go where the wind takes you.

No, that sounds like a version of Gabe from wish.com.

I stop and sigh.

When I lost him, I swore I’d keep his memory alive, that even if it had been years since I’d last seen him, I’d never, ever, ever forget him. But here I am, losing his voice, losing his turns of phrase, losing his face.

I remember him less and less vividly, Gabe Chen.

“I’m sorry,” I apologize into the wind.

I try to picture him standing ahead of me on the trail.

He would shrug and say something snarky, yet wise. Practical. Like, “You’re really going to meet some weirdo in the woods?”

I smirk.

That’s the Gabe I remember.

“He’s not some weirdo,” I say aloud, pressing on. “He’s the answer to Barbazal’s problems.”

“Anyway,” continues his voice in my head, “The answer to Barbazal’s problems, huh? That’s a lofty title. This guy sounds like God.”

I snicker.

“Not quite,” I say. “Just a guy with feelings.”

“Those can be dangerous,” he would say. “Did you at least bring mace?”

“Shouldn’t need it,” I say, feeling determination grow with each step. “He’s got a lot to protect, and something tells me committing an act of violence wouldn’t exactly help his political career. The worst that can happen is he swears at me and leaves.”

I lose my footing and slip on the leaves, catching myself.

“Jesus,” I exclaim.

“Not quite,” Gabe would say. “Speaking of deities, though, it sounds like you’re trying to be the answer to Barbazal’s problems.”

“Okay?” I say with a shrug and an implied and? “What if I am? What if all Jonah needs is someone to talk to? Someone to be real with?”

And if Gabe were right here, I already know what he’d say, clear as day.

“Sometimes, the fakest people are covering up a lot of hurt.”

I guess that’s true. But whatever Jonah Macon might be hiding, I’m ready to see it.

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