Patent Mine (Hummingbird series) by TR NoWry

Author:TR NoWry
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: TR Nowry
Published: 2008-09-02T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

He woke beside her and sat enough to see the clock. Class was in two hours. He had apologized for his father at least a million times in the last few days, even though she didn't seem to mind. To her, his father just seemed to care.

Two hours until class, but the alarm was set to go off any minute.

He reached across her and turned it off.

"Hey," he lightly tapped the scar on her cheek. "Wake up."

She didn't.

He tapped her with the backs of his finger again.

She woke.

"You have to take your tooth out."

She sleepily reached in her mouth.

He looked at it in her fingers. It looked like a dull aluminum, coppery on the inside. Tiny, but she held onto it dearly.

He was horrified about the questions his father had asked. But, it didn't stop him. "You really from Georgia?"

She shook a no.

"Your parents really die in a car wreck?"

No.

"You, really been raped?"

She didn't respond.

He felt a chill. He didn't mean to, but he inched away. "But, it wasn't strangers."

"I knew some of them."

Them. Them was the biggest word in that short sentence for him. Them.

She held her hand to her chest. "They used cigarettes to time whose turn it was." She looked at the watch and replaced the cap.

"They cut your cheek too?"

She rolled to her back and looked him in the eyes. "I have a life that is much different than yours. Some of it I struggle with, even today.

I've fallen in love, before. Been hurt, before. I know what loss and heartache is. I know what broken bones sound like, I know what a beating is, and I know more than I want to about rape.

I'm a long way from the wind driven snow you found me in, but I am that same girl you found.

I'll leave, if you want me to."

He kissed her instead.

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