Your Voice Is All I Hear by Leah Scheier

Author:Leah Scheier
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2015-07-02T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

On a canvas painted red

This beautiful fire’s fed

And I’ll wait for you

Angels shuddering through a winter day

There are no more words to say

But I’ll wait for you

Still, I had to go to school. That was the only thing that seemed to stand between me and my real life. My mom hadn’t exactly agreed with me by the end of our argument. But she hadn’t threatened to tie me to my bedpost either, so for now, that was enough for me. Under no circumstances could I allow my grades to suffer though. She was very clear on that. There would be no more absences, no missed assignments, and no excuses. So the following morning, instead of jumping on the bus toward the hospital, I found myself trudging into history with my head down, trying to avoid the looks of my hovering classmates.

Unfortunately for me, Ms. Lowry chose that day to be late to class, and before I could escape, Cora took the opportunity to sail over to my chair. She planted herself in Jonah’s empty seat and leaned toward me, a look of pity puckering up her face. I was praying that the news of Jonah’s hospitalization hadn’t reached the school yet, but that hope died as soon as Cora spoke.

“So Miles ran into Jonah a couple of days ago, did you know?” she began innocently, as if trading harmless gossip. “Apparently your boyfriend was wandering around the street barefoot and knee-deep in snow.”

I could feel the blood rushing to my face. I knew what was coming, and there was nothing I could do to stop it. I focused on my clenched hands and tried to block her out, tried to think about something else, anything but the picture she was about to paint for the class.

“Miles tried to talk to him,” she murmured sweetly. “But Jonah didn’t seem to hear him. It’s a good thing too, or who knows what could have happened? I told Miles that he should have run the other way. But of course he wanted to know what was going on. He wanted to understand why your boyfriend was wandering around a freezing street. And why he was all covered in paint. And half naked.”

She let her last words flutter in front of her. She wanted me to charge at her; she was waiting for me to rush to Jonah’s defense so she could drive a sword through my heart. But I wouldn’t give her the satisfaction.

“I just wanted to make sure Jonah was all right,” she continued in a sympathetic singsong voice. “Miles saw the ambulance coming down your street. So of course we were all very worried.”

That was all she knew, I reasoned. She couldn’t possibly know what had happened in the ER or where they had admitted him. She could only be guessing from here on.

“So I called Kris, to see if she’d heard anything,” she went on. “I wanted to bring Jonah a get-well card. Kris told me that they were admitting Jonah to Shady Grove.

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