See Through Heart by Amie Knight

Author:Amie Knight [Knight, Amie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: novel
Publisher: Amie Knight
Published: 2016-11-03T22:00:00+00:00

I missed Kelly already. We had spent the last five days packing and getting me ready for my trip home. When I’d left, she had hugged me more times than I’d deemed appropriate, and when I’d told her that, she’d told me to shut up and that she would come visit me soon. I wished she could have taken this dread-filled drive with me because I felt like I was teetering on the edge of I can do this and completely losing my shit.

I slowed when I approached the old, green Welcome to Gilbert sign. I pulled off to the side of the road and looked around. Everything looked the same from there. Tobacco and cotton fields lined each side of the street as far as the eye could see like they always had my entire life. How deceiving looks were, because not a damn thing in this town was going to be the way it had been, mostly because I was different.

I gathered some courage, pulled my truck back onto the road, and then headed to my momma’s house. It was only a ten-minute ride before I was pulling into the driveway behind Momma’s old Volvo. The sweet, little house I’d lived in looked like it hadn’t changed a bit. Momma was obviously taking good care of the yard still, because it looked freshly cut and pretty summer flowers lined the sidewalk.

I couldn’t help myself as I turned my head toward Adrian’s house. I knew he probably didn’t live there anymore, but it was like second nature for me to turn my head that direction. The old, silver sedan Adrian’s dad always used to drive sat out front, which told me that he still lived there. I looked past the chain link fence to the pool. It had a black cover on it, and I wondered if it was ever used anymore. I smiled at the fond memories of that pool and then immediately felt guilty about it. I was home. Lori was gone, and to make matters worse, I had alienated everybody who loved me here. I had no reason to smile.

I grabbed my violin and my purse but left the rest of my stuff in the car. I’d come back for it. I stepped up to the door and almost just turned the knob, but it didn’t feel right. This wasn’t really my home anymore. I had lost the right to just walk in, so I rang the doorbell and stepped back a little.

I heard clicking sounds of the door unlocking and felt my face flame with heat. I hadn’t even called to say that I was coming home. What if she didn’t want me here? What if this was all a mistake?

The door opened and there stood my momma. I didn’t realize how much I had missed her until I set eyes on her. Her mostly grey hair was up in a knot at the top of her head, and she was wearing a T-shirt and jean shorts.

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