Worth the Trip by Tara Sivec

Author:Tara Sivec [Sivec, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Published: 2015-05-02T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

I run my fingers over the prom night photo and curse myself a hundred times. Closing my eyes for a few minutes, I try to will away all of the aches and pains in my tired, old body. I don’t have time to be sick or to worry about my health. I have to get these words on paper before it’s too late. Picking the notepad and pen back up, I continue writing my and Bevy’s story.

If ever a boy needed a good, solid whack upside the head, it was me. I spent the next few weeks after prom being a complete dumbass where Bevy was concerned. Keenly aware of the clock ticking down on our time together, I spent every free moment at Bevy’s side, forgoing sleep altogether in exchange for throwing rocks at her bedroom window and sneaking down to the lighthouse. Sitting together under the stars, we talked about everything, including how much I hated working at the bank. She was going to make something of herself and I was going to be stuck working for Fisher’s Bank and Trust for the rest of my life.

Being cooped up behind a desk was sucking out my very soul and I spent the days counting down the minutes until I could run out that stuffy building, tear off my suit and tie and get into the sunshine. I’d spent my off time the last few years helping people fix things around the island, a side job that had grown out of serving as Billy’s assistant on a few remodeling projects. A couple of local contractors had taken notice and taken me under their wings, showing me how to use a hammer and fix a leaky pipe. When I got off work at the bank, I yanked my suit off as fast as I could, threw on an old t-shirt and a pair of jeans and ran back into town to get another lesson on fix-it work. Regardless of how much money I stood to make at the bank, there was nothing I’d rather spend my days doing than working with my hands. In typical Bevy fashion, she told me to stop being a chicken and tell my father how I felt, that there was no point living your life doing something that made you unhappy.

I laid my heart bare to Beverly O’Bryne over the course of those weeks, discussing everything except, of course, the only think that really mattered. I noticed things about Bevy I’d never taken the time to see and imagined how I would feel when she was gone, nearly making myself physically ill. I noticed how her laugh made my heart beat fast and how her smile, especially when it was aimed at me, made me feel like I hung the moon. All I could think about was Bevy leaving our island and how I might never see her again. So much wasted time. If only I’d have pulled my head out of my ass sooner.

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