The Between by Tananarive Due

Author:Tananarive Due
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins US
Published: 2011-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

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“Never mind her name. I still have some ethics left.”

“Where is she, then? What happened to her?”

“She quit therapy. She was a student. I know my brother talked to her for a project he’s been working on at the university about near-death phenomenon.”

“What does that have to do with her?”

“That’s why her parents sent her to therapy. She fell from a fourth-floor balcony on spring break and nearly died. Very lucky, that one. Her dreams started after that.”

Hilton felt a thudding boot in his chest. “Like Nana.”

“Oh, stop with that already. What’s like Nana?”

“That’s when the dreams started, after I found her on the floor. She’d had an attack, remember? She was—”

“Everything is Nana with you. Listen to me, you’re wasting your intellectual and emotional energy this way. What you need to do is call this doctor I recommended and keep your pants zipped up. You have to solve your problems with what’s real before you can solve your dreams. Stop fucking around on your wife, and maybe your nightmares will go away. You disappoint me, compadre.”

Hilton tasted his food but suddenly had no appetite. “I shouldn’t have said anything to you.”

“I hope at least you were safe.”

“I’m crazy, not stupid.”

“Don’t piss it all away, I’m warning you. You have a self-destructive nature, and I see what you’re doing. You don’t deserve Dede, you’re thinking. You don’t deserve those bright children. So you work to destroy it. It’s very, very foolish.”

“Don’t worry about it,” Hilton said. “It won’t happen again, and maybe it never happened at all.”

“Hilton,” Raul said in a somber tone, sliding the business card closer to him. “See her. Make an appointment. I do agree you need help. You have a severe sleeping disorder.”

“I don’t need her. I have you,” Hilton said, his voice cracking unexpectedly as his words turned pleading.

“Don’t you see? I cannot help you.”

What did he have to tell Raul so he would understand? That he thought he had lost his mind? That he’d woken up the other night and nearly been compelled to put his shotgun in his mouth, that he’d come this close to blowing his brains out? Maybe that was what he needed to say, but he couldn’t.

“You know who I’d rather talk to?” Hilton asked in a strained voice, staring at Raul. “Your brother and the Haitian girl.”

“To chase dreams and ghosts?”

“Man, they’re all I have left to chase,” Hilton said.

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