Something There by Molly Lynn Robinson

Author:Molly Lynn Robinson [Robinson, Molly Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-06T04:00:00+00:00

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The beautiful afternoon has turned into a rather abysmal evening. If there had been a setting sun, the skies above didn’t show it. Rolling black clouds move quickly on the harsh wind, the threat of rain making even the most optimistic of people worry. The stadium lights are bright enough for the area, but the rest of the campus and town are blanketed in thick darkness. Grim and sullen, there is a lack of energy across the parking lot, bleachers, and football field and people have to actively fight to stay excited.

Izzy can’t understand why anyone would risk getting absolutely soaked just for a football game. And can’t the game be rescheduled anyway? It’s just a stupid high school game. And what about lightning? The farther from the parking lot she went, the more she wanted to go back to the safety of Adam’s car, the safety of Café Andromeda. Just a little bit of time though… right? Just a little bit of time and then she’ll hug Phil and leave with Adam to go to Bookends.

It’s this plan that keeps her there. Phil isn’t exactly the most supportive when it comes to her friendship and possible relationship with Adam – too caught up in the drama and gossip surrounding him, not really willing to listen to anything Izzy has to say. But if she puts in enough time here, and Adam’s here with her, maybe this will help her best friend of ten years relax.

She usually doesn’t care what people think of her... though, as a rule, her actions aren't exactly questionable. But Phil was her first friend when she and Papa moved here after her mother's death, and her only friend for a few months. When she stopped being the new girl in school, people were friendlier. And though she has acquaintances in her classes and acquaintances she sits with at lunch, it’s really only Phil she spends time with outside of school.

It’s in this moment that she realizes she’s lonelier than the supposed boy with no one. Looking over at Adam now, she thinks of her claim of being, or wanting to be, adventurous like Rapunzel. Sure she has plans to travel, hopefully even live in Europe. Sure she helps her father with some design aspects of the renos. Sure she sometimes goes to parties with Phil, but she keeps to him like a lost puppy. So…what has she really done? Actually done and not planned to do, actually done for herself and herself alone?

Adam awoke a confidence within her, a sense of self she didn’t know she was lacking. Suddenly, she feels like the way Tony always describes his wife, feels more like her mother than ever before. Suddenly, she feels fearless.

Izzy knows she gets her beauty from her mother but now knows she’s realizing she has her same strength, too (it had just been buried deep for too long). Not being afraid to spend time with someone new, not being afraid to take him to some of her favorite places, not being afraid to be herself….

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