Song for Emilia by Julia Osborne

Author:Julia Osborne [Osborne, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult Fiction - Coming of Age
ISBN: 9780648096306
Publisher: ETT Imprint
Published: 2017-10-16T16:00:00+00:00

Over a month since Sandra returned home from Curradeen. Now it was the end of July. No word from Nick. No cheerful phone call.

She’d written a thankyou note to both Mrs Ferrari and Mrs Morgan. She didn’t expect a reply from them, but Nick?

All she’d received was Emilia’s stunning letter which she refused to answer. Mind your own business, she informed an imaginary Emilia.

Why should I care about Nick, she repeatedly encouraged herself. I always told Emilia I didn’t want a boyfriend: I just wanted to be my own true self and discover what I could do best. A boyfriend would only get in the way, she’d vehemently insisted, always wondering will he, won’t he about everything, like a stupid daisy chain.

Since her visit to Wilga Park, she’d gone over and over their night by the fireside. Maybe, she had almost decided, Nick just wanted to see how far she’d go? Maybe he’d done it with another girl, a girl who happily agreed? Boys did it, didn’t they? Easy for them.

What invisible strings continued to draw her to Nick? It was becoming obvious he didn’t want her as a girlfriend. So, Sandra decided, I will desire nothing more, either.

So why did she lie awake at night – or sleeping, dream the most awful dreams? Almost afraid to close her eyes, sensing the descent into sleep – the room darkened as the moon slipped behind heavy clouds – no light from the hallway to illuminate the dimness in her bedroom.

She saw a bridge over the river on the road to Denalbo, a concrete bridge with no sides, not like any bridge she’d seen before, and there were horses, drowned horses, just their heads, their noses held out of the rushing water, and as she looked at one, it became Toffee, and so close by, its eyelids flickered and she cried out, God, it’s still alive. She wanted to help and pulled at the rope on its neck, but its body was weighed down with debris and mud and as its eyelids flickered again, she cried, Toffee! But the horse waited patiently for the end – its lungs, its entire body to fill with water – and weeping, Sandra abandoned it and ran across the bridge, to awaken covered in sweat.

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