Tiger Lily by Wende Dikec

Author:Wende Dikec [Dikec, Wende]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ghost, New adult romance, Falling in Love with a Ghost, paranormal romance, Manicure
Publisher: Inkspell Publishing
Published: 2015-11-20T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Part of me was glad this would all be over by the time my parents got back from their respective trips. Part of me felt sick over the fact that usually my whole year centered on the day Rosie died. Recently, I’d been so focused on Nick, the soul reaper, and my little blob, that I hadn’t thought about Rosie at all.

After Zoe and Josh left, I went up to her bedroom. My parents hadn’t changed a thing since the day she died. Clarice dusted and vacuumed, but nothing else was touched. A shrine to dead dreams.

Sometimes, if I brought one of her blankets to my face, I could still smell her sweet baby scent. That’s where Nick found me. In Rosie’s closet, holding her blanket against my face, and crying my eyes out.

I looked up at him and shook my head at my own foolishness. “How can you miss something you barely even had? She was only ours for a few months, Nick, but we just can’t seem to move on. Not my mom, not my dad, and certainly not me.”

Nick outlined the shape of a small giraffe on Rosie’s blanket with his finger. “Maybe it isn’t about moving on or letting go. Maybe it’s about finding a way to hold on to your memories, but still live your lives.”

“None of us have been able to do that. My parents are in a weird sort of limbo. They won’t come into this room, they can’t even say her name, and they run away every year on the day she died.” I took a deep breath. “And I feel so guilty. If I had just checked on her sooner...”

Nick shook his head, running his finger down the side of my face. I couldn’t feel anything, but I closed my eyes anyway and tried to imagine I could. “It doesn’t work that way. It isn’t fair that she died, but it isn’t fair for you to torture yourself, either.”

“I don’t,” I said, opening my eyes. Nick looked unconvinced. “Really. I just want to fix everything. To put things back in their proper places so it all makes sense again.”

“Like you’re doing with me and the ghosts?”

I gave him a wry smile. “I guess so.”

Nick let me have some privacy as I got ready for bed. I brushed my teeth and hair, and laid the necklace from Mrs. Chang carefully on my dresser. When he came back, I’d dressed in my pajamas and had turned down the sheets. He leaned against the doorjamb, hands shoved deep in his pockets.

“Can I stay with you?” he asked. He looked nervous, like I might make him go away. The truth was, I couldn’t stand the thought of being apart, even for a minute. I nodded, and patted the spot next to me on the bed.

A warm night for early spring, I’d left my window open. A breeze floated in, ruffling the lacey curtains on my window. Nick lay on his side facing me.

“Is Bambi your girlfriend?” I asked, sort of scared about what he might say.

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