Secret 3: Lifted by Nia Forrester

Author:Nia Forrester [Forrester, Nia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, United States, African American, Romance, Women's Fiction, Teen & Young Adult
Amazon: B00NKSC6JM
Publisher: Nia Forrester
Published: 2014-09-13T04:00:00+00:00

Thirteen

“I wondered if for a moment we might turn our attention to Baja,” Dr. Young said.

Tessa had been almost dozing in the armchair. Her legs were draped over one of the arms and her head against the backrest. They’d been having one of those meandering, stream-of-consciousness types of sessions, where she rambled on about whatever came to mind and her doctor listened. What she’d been rambling about this time was Trey and Shayla.

Shayla had, early that morning, called with the news that she was ‘beginning to show’. She was excited because she now could start looking at and buying maternity clothes. In the background as her sister-in-law babbled on, Tessa heard her brother quip that as far as he could see, Shayla didn’t look pregnant at all, but like she’d had a big dinner.

Shut up, Trey, Shayla had giggled. I do not!

In the background, her brother had been laughing as well.

“I never heard him laugh like that before,” Tessa told Dr. Young. “I mean like, never. Never ever.”

And predictably, Dr. Young had asked, “How did that make you feel?”

“Like he’s never had a real reason to laugh like that, or a reason for real joy, until he was no longer responsible for me.”

That was the honest answer. The one Tessa was too tired to conceal.

And that was when Dr. Young had, in an evident effort to change the subject, asked her about Baja.

Baja. Of all her screw-ups that was the granddaddy of them all.

Instead of going to back to school for her sophomore year of college, Tessa had infamously taken the money her brother had deposited in her account for tuition and used it to buy a ticket to California. Flying non-stop to San Diego she’d spent the night in a hotel near the Mexican border. While there she met three guys who were planning to cross the border in the morning in search of what they referred to as “epic” surfing. They were blonde and tan, with faces prematurely lined from too much time in the sun and saltwater. Funny and animated, like someone’s stereotype of surfer-dudes, they made Tessa feel comfortable right away so she had spent much of the evening smoking in one of their rooms. They told her that they had traveled the world in search of great surfing, and had been as far away as Australia, just chasing waves.

Over a dinner of fish tacos, greasy enchiladas and beer, they described for her a place they knew well in the lower part of the Baja peninsula, where a person could live on the beach and rent a hut for less than fifty dollars a day. That was where they were headed, so she decided to follow them. She had no other plans, and even though what she was doing was already reckless beyond reason, she also knew that a young woman traveling alone had to be cautious.

The three guys, whose names today Tessa inexplicably couldn’t recall, had been her companions for the months she’d spent in Mexico.

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