The Sky Buries All Sorrow by Roger DeBlanck

Author:Roger DeBlanck [DeBlanck, Roger]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

PART III

CHAPTER 28

From their first day at the beach, Cassie loved racing across the sands. When she ran out of breath, she simply stopped where she was and stood facing the ocean. The immortal sun, like a nugget of gold, basked down upon her face. As the endless waves barreled upon the shoreline, she loved the feeling of the cool waters corralling around her ankles. She also marveled at how the foamy crest of each wave flattened out to iron away the path of her footprints with a smooth, slick whooshing sound.

Since driving across the country three weeks ago, she and her parents had been living primarily out of their Ford Fairlane. Cassie liked the way their vehicle’s front grille and bumper combined to look like a big toothy grin. This was the opposite of what her mother always told her about her perfect, elegant smile, the type that showcased only her sparkly whites and not any portion of her gum line. The impression of her own beauty made Cassie shy and giggly. In turn, she often acted silly. She would imagine the funny face on the front of their car and try to imitate that expression by pulling up her top lip and biting down on her lower lip to give herself buckteeth. Her mother would wave her finger jokingly at her daughter and tease her, “If you keep doing that, one day your mouth’s gonna freeze up, and you’ll forever lose your beautiful smile.” Cassie would giggle again and restore her lovely grin before bolting back towards the ocean to track new prints in the sands.

When she grew bored with making footpaths down the beach, she started running into the waves. She would spread out her arms straight and wide at her sides, as if forming a cross. She would then sprint to meet an incoming wave. Closing her eyes, she would try to time the break perfectly so that the foamy crest of the waters collided with her in the chest and pushed her down so she’d become unearthed and spin over and be glided backwards to ride the easy tide as it swept her across the sands. Laughing with all her might, she would spring back up from the ebbing flow and shake the briny water from her gilded hair and prepare for the next wave. Her nonstop energy would allow her to play all morning and into early afternoon until her parents finally called her to have lunch. Most days she had a hamburger with French fries and a snow cone for a sweet snack.

John and Nora allowed her to consume fattening foods because she needed to regain the valuable pounds she’d lost during her illness. They also reminded her how the balm of the sun’s rays restored the glow to her skin. Her father now relished telling her the story of how he, like the sun, had delivered curative powers to her back in Pittsburgh. He described himself standing at the window in the hospital and channeling his energy to her in the bed.

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