Midsummer Magic by Julia Williams

Author:Julia Williams
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Romance, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780007464487
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2013-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Ant was wandering through a forest, feeling kind of dreamy. He had never been out at night like this in the country. The silver beams of the moon danced through the trees, casting a light shimmer, which meant he wasn’t afraid. He heard the snuffling sounds of woodland creatures in the undergrowth.

It was such a lovely evening, such a pretty copse. He felt that no one would mind if he lay down here and stayed for a while. Ant lay flat on his back and looked up at the stars, feeling pleasantly detached, and then suddenly the dream changed …

It wasn’t summer any more, it was winter, and he and Diana were holding hands, laughing, at the top of a mountain. He could feel the crisp cold air against his cheeks, see the majestic mountains around him. He was with her and nothing mattered at all. He could hear the others falling out of the bar, screaming and laughing, but nothing else mattered but this moment, with Diana by his side. He had never felt such exquisite happiness.

‘I will never ever let you go,’ he whispered, kissing her softly on the lips.

Laughing, she tugged him by the hand, and then they were tobogganing down the mountain at a dizzying and thrilling rate. Time and time again they ended up in heaps of snow, only to remount and carry on. It was mad, furious and funny and he never wanted the moment to end. But end it did, with a bump, as they fell off the toboggan for one last time and ended up in a soggy giggling heap in the snow.

‘I’m so lucky to have found you,’ he said, ‘don’t ever change.’

‘Tony –’ she began, just as he heard the sound of an owl hooting. ‘I need to tell you something …’

‘What?’ Ant asked, but the dream was already fading, and the snow and Diana disappeared as quickly as they’d come.

What? What was she going to tell him? He felt sure it was important, and simultaneously sad, as if he’d lost something very dear to him.

He felt his cheek and realised to his surprise that tears were coursing down them. He remembered more then. Diana had never answered his question, and two weeks later she’d dumped him in front of everyone, by pouring a pint of beer over his head. At the time he had no idea, why. And by the time he’d found out why, it was too late.

Ant sat up and looked around him, and gasped. He was alone in a beautiful copse, the silvery moon casting its light in the gaps between the trees. How had he got here? He glanced at his watch, nearly ten o’clock already. He must have been sleepwalking. Suddenly it felt imperative he get back to them, especially to Diana. He’d done her a great wrong and it was time he put it right.

Diana was dreaming she was lying on pillows in the base of a boat, being rowed down a river.

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