Locked by Parker Witter

Author:Parker Witter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2014-08-18T16:00:00+00:00

We spend the next hour in the water, but I don’t catch a single fish, and I’m not really trying. “I think I’m pruning,” I tell Noah. My fingers are beginning to shrivel, and a cloud cover is rolling in now—it’s getting cold.

Noah runs his eyes down my arms. They’re pricked up in goose bumps. “Of course,” he says. “Let’s go.”

He helps me out of the water and knots the four fish he caught to the spear with some rope. Then he hands me his canvas shirt. His chest is still bare, and I can see the outline of his abs—hard muscles knotted in rows. I remember summers swimming with him at camp. I know he didn’t always look like this. I know there was a time he was skinny and gangly. But it’s hard to remember it now.

“You look cold,” he says. “Double up.”

I pull on his shirt. It smells like him. Like the outdoors. Wood and dirt and rain. On the plane I was wearing a sweatshirt Ed had given me, but I took it off when we started flying. It said EDDY’S on the front. It was from some fish restaurant he had been to in Hawaii and had brought back for me. I loved wearing it. I thought it was the perfect mix of cute and kitschy. And I loved the way people looked at me when I wore it. Eddy’s. I was his.

For a brief moment I imagine it, water-gorged, at the bottom of this ocean, the plastic letters peeling up from the salt.

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