Lost by Francine Pascal

Author:Francine Pascal
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Pulse

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Her hair is dirty and wet and matted from the rain. It’s sticking to her forehead and her cheek in knotted tangles. She has a bruise just above her eye that is a swirl of purples and blues. There’s dried blood under her nose. Her skin is pale, and her lips are flaking. She’s wearing a T-shirt big enough for a linebacker and a pair of muddied, ripped cords with her ever present black boots.

She’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.

All that time. All that time I was imprisoned, kept away from all human contact except the occasional roughing up by the guards, all I thought about was her. I thought about the first day I saw her in the park, playing chess—that look of concentration and joy on her face. I thought about the first time she smiled at me, the first time we kissed, the first time we touched. But after a while, with nothing to look at but blank white walls, and with no one to see but those wrinkled, evil faces, I started to wonder if I’d made her up. If I’d imagined her as a way to stay sane. Or at the very least if I was building her up to be something she wasn’t. If I was imagining this perfection because it was all I had.

But now it’s clear that I didn’t imagine a thing. She’s even more beautiful than I remembered.

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