Plunge by Brittany McIntyre

Author:Brittany McIntyre [McIntyre, Brittany]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-06T05:00:00+00:00

Despite the 32-degree weather and the wind that was whipping my skin, my hands were sweating as I grabbed the red glitter box filled with her Christmas cookies. Am I really doing this? Am I really just going to show up at her door the day before Christmas? I couldn’t believe that I had been able to talk myself into leaving the house when Lennox probably wasn’t even going to talk to me, but I couldn’t handle the silence I was still receiving from her. I sat by the phone all night the evening before and I kept having those weird phantom phone vibrations only to be disappointed that no one was calling. Yes, I answered myself, I was doing this.

Sliding out of my car, I walked slowly up to her front door, negotiating the passage across the ice as carefully as possible. When I made it to her front door a full three minutes of slipping, duck walking later, I stood stark still as I tried to work up the nerve to accomplish my next task: knocking on the door. Eyes pinched shut, I breathed, trying to steady my nerves.

You’ve got this, I said to myself, willing myself to move. Just knock on the door. Right there underneath the wreath, just knock.

Before I could win the battle of wills, the door swung open and a Winter Wonderland was exposed: I had no clue how much effort Lennox’s parents put into this whole Christmas thing. Every surface was lined with tinsel, those tiny Christmas village figures were on every available surface, and the house smelled so strongly of cinnamon that it was like red hots had been boiled on the stive for the previous week.

Lennox led me to her room and we barely got through the door before I started my desperate appeal to fix our argument.

"Why are you so mad at me?" I asked. "I know things went really wrong, but I don't don't know those boys. It's not like I told them to be there."

“Is that what you think? You think I’m mad at you because I blame you for those guys showing up? I don’t blame you,” she said. I could see the anger across her face in the way she didn’t blow the hair from her eyes even though it was hanging directly across her vision.

“So, what then?” I asked and I shoved my hands into my pockets in frustration. “What did I do wrong?”

What happened next made me jump. Not a figurative jump; my feet actually left the floor. Lennox whirled around and yelled at me.

“Do you not understand that wasn’t a game? That was actual danger,” she choked out and a sob escaped her lips. She was crying, big, fat tears rolling down her ivory cheeks. “Those were the boys from my school. The ones who . . .”

She choked again, a gurgling noise rising in the back of her throat. She literally couldn’t bring herself to form the words. The realization hit me like a gut punch.

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