North of Nowhere by Liz Kessler

Author:Liz Kessler [Kessler, Liz]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780763667276
Google: NG1aKiu4WOwC
Amazon: B00DMI1H6S
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2013-08-06T07:00:00+00:00

She sat by the window all day. Well, perhaps not the entire day. The first hour after her father had left was spent in her bedroom, shouting, cursing, pacing her room so hard it was a wonder there was any carpet left when she finally stopped.

Finally, she tore a page out of one of her mother’s notebooks, and began to write her feelings down. It was the only way she could get them out. She would have used her diary but she had sent that away with her father.

She wrote about how angry she was with her father, how he spoiled everything, how she hated him, hated Luffsands, hated everything right now.

Finally, when the anger was out, she wrote about her fear.

Eventually, all she wrote was, “Father, please come home soon. I love you and I just want you to be safe. I’m sorry. I’ll never get angry with you again, I promise. Just come home, please.”

After that, she put down her pen, folded up the paper, and went downstairs. When she had hugged her mother tightly and whispered an apology that she wished her father would hear, she took herself to the window seat and sat, looking out at the sea raging below and trying to calm her heart.

It was still two hours before high tide and already the angry swell was rising fiercely, beating against the harbor wall like an angry mob that would not recede until it had wreaked the havoc it craved. The few boats inside the small harbor reared like rodeo horses with every wave. Each time, Diane’s heart reared with them, so hard she feared it would come out through her mouth if she wasn’t careful.

She watched the sea level inching ever higher with the tide, watched the swell grow more and more angry, all the time desperately hoping to see her father’s boat returning.

Why had she let him leave her in such a mood? She faced directly out the window and offered her plea bargain to the sea: bring my father home, just let him come home today, and I swear I’ll never say a mean word to him again.

Finally, with nothing left to barter, and all out of wishes, she curled up in the seat, closed her eyes, and prayed.

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