A Postcard Would Be Nice by Steph Campbell

Author:Steph Campbell [Campbell, Steph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01MRGHTLZ
Goodreads: 32330845
Publisher: bcc books
Published: 2016-09-30T23:00:00+00:00

25.

I suck in a breath and watch her eyes grow wide.

Paloma’s eyebrows pull together, and she frowns. “What is it?”

“I’m not Japanese. I’m Chinese,” I deadpan. “Well, half-Chinese. Don’t let these gorgeous almond-shaped eyes fool you. But you’ve met my parents, though, so I guess you already knew the half-part.”

Paloma laughs, and it’s a fucking beautiful sound. I did that.

“Oliver,” she says, clapping her hands together. “What in the world does that have to do with anything? What does it matter?”

“It matters because I don’t have the answer to your question.”

She gets quiet. We both get quiet, and the walls of her room suddenly feel like they’re closing in on me.

“What question? What are you talking about?”

I was trying to make things lighter, but I may have dug a nice, big, fat hole for myself. Does she even remember?

“The postcard. I don’t know the Japanese word for a heart skipping a beat.” I stare down at my hands. “And I wish I did.”

“That’s okay,” she says, looking up at me with soft eyes. “I didn’t really expect an answer at all.”

“Oh.” I straighten up, trying not to show how I wish I knew all the things. How I wish that I had all the answers to all the questions she’s ever wondered.

A strand of hair falls in her face, and, without thinking, I reach over and tuck it back behind her ear. Because I want to see her face. All of her.

“Mi corazón saltó un latido,” she says. Her tongue curls around each syllable in a magical way. It feels like the first time I ever heard her voice. I want to hear her say it over and over. “I guess I could’ve just gone with that in the first place.”

“What does that mean?” I ask. I close my eyes and say a quick, silent prayer that my mediocre understanding of Spanish is accurate.

“You make my heart skip a beat, Oliver.”

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