Searching for Beautiful by Nyrae Dawn

Author:Nyrae Dawn [Dawn, Nyrae]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction / Contemporary Women
ISBN: 9781622661497
Google: UZvqAQAAQBAJ
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2014-03-04T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

Before

“Hey, Bryntastic.” Christian smiles at me. We’re all at the park after school. Christian showed up not long after Ellie and Diana disappeared somewhere. I’d stayed at the swings. I love the swings. The wind rushing by me is like freedom. The swings make me feel like I can fly.

“Hey,” I reply.

“I like your hair. How it flies around when you’re swinging.” Christian looks down, and I see a smile making his cheeks move. I’m about two billion degrees. I probably look redder than my hair. Christian is so freaking cute, and he just told me he likes my hair.

“Red hair is lame,” I say.

“Nah, it’s unique.” He sits on the swing next to me and starts pumping his legs. “Kind of like pottery. I don’t know anyone else who does that.”

“My mom helped me find it. It’s my favorite thing in the world to do. What’s yours?”

Christian keeps swinging. A hundred years pass before he speaks again. “I haven’t found it yet.”

“You will.” I pump my legs as hard as my eleven-year-old legs can.

“Yeah?”

“Absolutely. Everyone has one. My mom says.”

Together we keep flying through the air. I see Christian pop a piece of candy into his mouth. I grin, thinking I suddenly like Dots a whole lot. “For now I’ll say eating candy.”

“That’s not the same.”

He ignores that. “You want one?”

“Sure.” Butterflies suddenly start racing in my belly. Christian doesn’t stop swinging, just holds out his hand. I almost stop because there’s no way we can pass a piece of candy to each other while we’re going like this. But then…I decide to just try.

I hold out my hand, too, and when we’re both all the way forward, all the way to the sky, our hands touch, Christian passing the red Dot to me.

It’s almost like we’re holding hands, but of course it’s only about one second, and then he’s gone. Suddenly I’m flying higher than I ever have. I put the candy into my mouth. “Thanks.”

“Any time, Bryntastic. What are friends for?”

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