Touching the Surface by Kimberly Sabatini

Author:Kimberly Sabatini
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Published: 2012-10-30T04:00:00+00:00

20

go with

the flow

I wouldn’t have known we’d entered a Delve except that the waterwheel disappeared. One minute it was there and then it was gone. Instead of sitting in the shade, surrounded by ferns and pines, I was perched high in the air with the sun making everything dazzlingly bright.

I attempted to turn my head, but my eyes stayed glued to the endless blue sky painted across my field of vision. This wasn’t my Delve, it was Trevor’s.

Without warning, my gaze shot downward to an immense river. I felt a wave of vertigo at the sudden movement. This was uncomfortable. I had no idea where we were and I could feel Trevor’s body tense up and my stomach roil as I peeked at the water below.

Just as I thought Trevor would tip over, he turned to look at me, the past-life version of me. The sight was shocking. She was glorious. She was sitting on the edge of a granite outcrop, feet dangling aimlessly over the abyss. Her arms were propped behind her, with her face turned up to the sun. Elliot’s eyes were closed and the sun lit up her hair with a warm caramel glow.

I was clearly watching a stranger, not the girl I thought of as myself. I started to sweat, watching her on the edge. A jittering ball of height-induced fear rolled around my stomach, yet this Elliot was in her element.

“So, this is what you do to relax?” There was a mixture of admiration and disbelief in Trevor’s voice.

Elliot turned to look at him and I drew in my breath.

“Yeah. This is what I do,” she replied with a twitch in the corner of her mouth.

I felt myself wanting to lean toward this strange vision of myself, to discover this new unexpected version of me. Before this, I hadn’t discovered anything good about Elliot Turner I wanted to explore. The first memory of Oliver had been the start of a slippery slope, one negative thing after another.

“My dad brought me up here all the time when I was younger.” Elliot turned back to stare out over the water, completely at ease sitting on the edge of the world. “The first time, I was nine years old. We brought along a little picnic. While we were sitting here, we watched an eagle soar on the wind.”

“That must’ve been amazing.”

“Oh, it was. I was perched in the same piece of sky where an eagle flew. It felt as if I was about as close to heaven as anyone could possibly get.”

“Back to heaven in the clouds,” Trevor said.

Elliot nodded and continued. “My dad and I would hike up here from time to time, but as I got older I found myself craving this place. So I started to come by myself when I needed to get away from the rest of the world.”

Trevor panned the horizon. “It’s freakin’ amazing. I can see why you come here.”

He edged over to the side of the rock, peering down. My stomach did flip-flops in response.

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