What I Didn't Say by Keary Taylor

Author:Keary Taylor [Taylor, Keary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9781475156454
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

19 weeks ‘til Sam’s birthday

It was amazing, how easily Sam fit in with my family. I’d brought her home with me and everyone went out of their way to say hi to her. And everything just felt so… normal. Sam talked with Jordan for a second, and then she and I went into my room and worked on homework. And we did actually work. There was no pressure in the air to have to do anything physical; it didn’t feel weird that we were in my room alone together.

It felt like something we’d done a hundred times before.

Just like she was a part of the family, Mom set a place for her at the dinner table and she ate with the lot of us.

I took her home that night and kissed her good-bye just once. Her lips tasted like cherry.

But something felt… off at school the next day. Sam was still friendly, she still smiled that smile she only smiled at me. We still sat next to each other during class. But she never did slip her hand into mine. She never came with me to The Market for lunch. She’d just quietly say she needed to do some homework in the library.

Sam was just… distant.

And I honestly wasn’t sure how to react. I felt like I was being whiplashed. Any time we were alone or at my house, she was the sweet girl who felt like my girlfriend, who held my hand and kissed me, and ran her fingers through my hair absentmindedly. But at school, she felt like nothing more than a really nice girl who was my friend.

Considering what she was currently dealing with, I didn’t dare push her about it. She was already trying to balance so much in her life, I wasn’t going to make things worse. And I could make it through the agonizing school Sam for the intoxicating after-school Sam.

She didn’t come over to my house on Tuesday and Thursday since Kali always came over on those days. He was already at the house when I arrived at home. He suggested a walk and together we set out down our road.

The very-end-of-November chill bit at my skin, all the moisture in the air making it feel colder than it actually was. The last of the fall leaves barely clung to the non-evergreen trees, a prelude to their dead winter skeletal selves. The island felt different in the winter. Things slowed down, more so than normal island time. All the tourists left, all the snow bird residents went to warmer places. The people who stayed were true islanders, appreciating Orcas’ beauty even when it was dark sixteen hours of the day.

Already as Kali and I walked down the road, at only quarter to four, it was starting to get dark through the overcast clouds above us. There was actually a chance of snow that night if it got cold enough.

How was school today? Kali signed. I actually understood everything Kali’s hands said.

Okay, I signed back.

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