Spark by Noelle Erin

Author:Noelle, Erin [Noelle, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Contemporary
Publisher: Erin Noelle
Published: 2015-04-19T04:00:00+00:00

The days after Thanksgiving blur by in the blink of an eye. The resort is at capacity, the Green Halo can barely keep up with the holiday demand, and I have a major Lit paper due on Monday—tomorrow morning. Awesome.

From the time Crew left for work late Thursday afternoon, I’ve been in a constant go-go-go mindset, only stopping to sleep when my body finally gives into exhaustion. Moving from the marijuana greenhouse, cultivating and packaging as much product as I have available, to the vegetable garden, ensuring we have plenty of produce for each morning’s breakfast, I continue to maintain my responsibilities for the family businesses, never wanting to disappoint my parents in any way.

Each evening, I spend huddled in front of my laptop, brainstorming and writing page after page on the relevance of Soyinka’s Nobel prize-winning collection, Of Africa, and his claims regarding faith, medicine, and the healing of the human spirit to today’s Western culture. Little did I know when I chose this topic months ago that I would meet Caleb, whose miraculous turnaround over the last several weeks has become my primary source of illustration throughout the paper. I giggle aloud when I think about how he’ll respond when I tell him he earned me an A in a class. He’ll probably demand a kiss in the form of repayment.

Unfortunately, Crew has been just as busy as I have, so other than playing text-tag, I haven’t seen or talked to him since he had dessert in my bed. Three whole days and I’ve started to have withdrawals. Maybe I’m the one with the addiction…

Mary’s been putting in extra hours at the ski shop thanks to the holiday rush, so he’s been spending his days with Caleb, taking him to doctor appointments and helping him study his homeschool material. He’s also worked some extra shifts at the Half Pipe, claiming one of the other bartenders said he could make close to two thousand dollars for working Wednesday through Sunday of this week, and from what he’s told me via messages, he’s just a few hundred dollars shy with only tonight’s shift left to go.

At a little after nine, I hit save on the document for the final time, my vision fuzzy from staring at the screen for so long and my fingertips numb from typing. Standing up from the desk chair, I stretch my arms high above my head and yawn just as Brighton walks into the study.

“Finally finished?” she asks while grabbing some paper and a pen. “You’ve been working on that thing nearly all weekend.”

“Yeah, I know, but I’m really happy with it. I think I nailed it,” I reply. “What are you doing tonight? Wanna play cards or something? I need to decompress.”

She twists her lips into a funny face and shakes her head. “Sorry, sis, I totally would, but I’m in the middle of an online XBOX tournament. That’s why I’m grabbing this, to keep track of our stats.”

“Our stats?”

“Mine and Caleb’s. He’s my

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