Windswept by Gwen Cole

Author:Gwen Cole
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781510742833
Publisher: Sky Pony
Published: 2020-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

SAM

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES

IT HAD TO BE SOME SORT OF JOKE. THERE WAS no way we—I, my family—were drifters and I had never known about it.

But if Reid was right, if all of this was what he said it was? Why hadn’t they told me? Why?

I pushed those thoughts from my mind and focused on the here and now.

I stood next to Reid with my stomach turning, not knowing what to do. I had gotten dressed in something more appropriate than shorts and a T-shirt, and I definitely stalled in the process. Nerves clawed at my stomach and I felt like I might throw up. If it was true, then this wasn’t just an upset stomach, and my body was shutting down. I was dying.

But not for long. I was about to do something I hadn’t known anyone to be capable of until two days earlier.

“How do I do it?” I asked again.

“You just do.” There was a hint of a smile in his voice. “Think about the place and then let yourself go. It’ll be like coming up for air after being underwater.”

“You make it sound easy.”

“It is easy.” There was a laugh in his voice, making it raspier than usual.

I looked at him one more time, trying to gain enough courage. I felt ridiculous standing in my room, thinking I was about to appear in an entirely different country. The pain in my stomach came again and my head felt like it was splitting apart.

I just wanted it to stop.

“You’ll be right behind me?”

“Yes, but you have to take the leap yourself.”

He was right. This was something I had to do myself. I thought about closing my eyes, but I found that I wanted to see this. I barely had to think of the place; it came effortlessly.

The image of the cliffs and ocean came so clearly. The black sky was just beginning to become light with dawn. My heart pounded so hard I thought it would explode. When I saw the place as clearly as I saw my bedroom, I stepped forward.

And nothing happened.

I turned back to Reid, whose eyebrow was raised. “Huh.”

“What do you mean, huh?” My voice was one pitch higher than it should have been. “That’s all you have to say?”

He shook his head, almost laughing. I didn’t think anything was funny about it. “You’re thinking too much,” he said

“What—”

He pushed me forward, cutting off my words. They were still lingering in my mouth when the image of him faded. My stomach dropped like I was free-falling, like I was going down a roller coaster at a dangerous speed, everything all at once. The air caught in my throat for the moment I was in between places.

When I could breathe again, I stood where I’d always imagined, where I’d been dreaming of. The water far below me, crashing against the rocks, and the sky still dark with hints of red on the horizon. The wind blew through my hair and clothes and that’s when the realization hit me:

I did it.

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