Wing Jones by Katherine Webber

Author:Katherine Webber [Webber, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781406374995
Publisher: Walker Books
Published: 2017-01-05T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 27

I like running with the girls on the track team, but sometimes I miss my moonlit, star-chaperoned runs with Aaron. I don’t know how to tell him that. Don’t know if I should. I’ve never been so aware of a person before. He’s usually running close to me, watching, advising, but so is Coach Kerry and so is Eliza, and I couldn’t tell you how many breaths they took in a minute or what their eyes look like when I beat my best time or what the sun does to their smile. Even when Aaron’s not near me, I know exactly where he is. And when he leaves early or is off helping someone else or doing his own training … I know that too.

At least I still get an occasional afternoon in the car with him when he drives me home after practice. But today he has to run an errand for his mom. I ask Eliza for a ride, but she’s got a dentist appointment, so I decide to run home. I leave my backpack in my locker since I don’t have any homework tonight. I’m about to start jogging down the street when something in the sky catches my eye. A flash of gold and green. My dragon is high above me, so high she might be a plane, but I can tell it’s her. I look around, knowing that my lioness can’t be far behind. They’re always together. And then, around the corner, I see it. My lioness’s tail. I chase after it, glancing overhead to make sure my dragon is still above me, and she is. She’s soaring lower now, looping around the clouds, making figure of eights. She’s flying like I run, with pure joy.

My lioness leads me down an unfamiliar street, but I’m not scared, I trust her, and then suddenly we’re in front of a building I know all too well.

Grady Memorial Hospital. My heart hiccups and I look up for my dragon but she’s gone behind a cloud or flown somewhere else I can’t follow. I never visit Marcus during the week. Not because I don’t want to…

I’m scared. Scared to go in on my own. What if he dies while I’m in there?

My lioness wants me to go in. I feel her behind my knees, pressing me forward, nudging me toward the building I’ve come to despise.

At the visitors’ desk, the receptionist who was so rude to us the first time we came smiles at me. She recognizes us now. And ever since that time, she goes out of her way to be extra friendly. “Miss Jones! Lovely to see you. Just in time too. Visiting hours are over in thirty minutes. Your grandmother is inside already.”

I knew it. I knew Granny Dee was visiting Marcus and not telling us. It is a miracle she’s been able to keep quiet about it, especially with LaoLao always yammering about how all Granny Dee does is sit around the house. LaoLao might be working at the restaurant, but visiting Marcus is its own kind of work.

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