Night World 04 - Dark Angel by L. J. Smith

Author:L. J. Smith
Format: mobi
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Fiction, Horror & Ghost Stories, Supernatural, Horror Stories, Horror Tales
ISBN: 9780340690024
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1996-12-14T23:00:00+00:00

He grinned. "No. But I wouldn't mind seeing you alone for a few minutes."

They went up a long carpeted staircase lined with oil paintings. The rooms upstairs were just as beautiful as downstairs: palatial and almost awe inspiring.

It put Gillian in a quiet mood. The music wasn't as loud up here, and the cool marble gave her the feeling of being in a museum.

She looked out a window to see velvet darkness punctuated by little twinkling lights.

"You know, I'm glad you didn't want to drink back there." David's voice behind her was quiet.

She turned, trying to read his face. "But . . . you were surprised?"

"Well-it's just sometimes now you seem so adult. Sort of worldly."

"Me? I mean-I mean you're the one who seems like that." And that's what you like in girls, she thought.

He looked away and laughed. "Oh, yeah. The tough guy. The wild guy. Tanya and I used to party pretty hard." He shrugged. "I'm not tough. I'm just a small-town guy trying to get through life. I don't look for trouble. I try to run from it if I can."

Gillian had to laugh herself at that. But there was something serious in David's dark eyes.

"I admit, it sort of had a way of finding me in the past," he said slowly. "And I've done some things that I'm not proud of. But, you know ... I'd like to change that-if it's possible."

"Sort of like a whole new side of you that wants to come out."

He looked startled. Then he glanced up and down her and grinned. "Yeah. Sort of like that."

Gillian felt suddenly inspired, hopeful. "I think," she said slowly, trying to put her ideas together, "that sometimes people need to-to express both sides of themselves. And then they can be ... well, whole."

"Yeah. If that's possible." He hesitated. Gillian didn't say anything, because she had the feeling that he was trying to. That there was some reason he'd brought her up to talk to her alone.

"Well. You know something weird?" he said after a moment. "I don't feel exactly whole. And the truth is-" He looked around the darkened room. Gillian could only see his profile. He shook his head, then took a deep breath. "Okay, this is going to sound even dumber than I thought, but I've got to say it. I can't help it."

He turned back, toward her and said with a mixture of determination and apology, "And since that day when I found you out there in the snow, I have this feeling that I won't be, without ..." He trailed off and shrugged. "Well-you," he said finally, helplessly.

The universe was one enormous heartbeat. Gillian could feel her body echoing it. She said slowly, "I ..."

"I know. I know how it sounds. I'm sorry."

"No," Gillian whispered. "That wasn't what I was going to say."

He'd turned sharply away to glare at the window. Now he turned halfway back and she saw the glimmer of hope in his face.

"I was going to say, I understand.

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