A Road Through Mountains by Miranda MacLeod

Author:Miranda MacLeod [MacLeod, Miranda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Apple Blossom Press
Published: 2016-04-02T06:00:00+00:00

17

Thunder rumbled in the distance as they made their way across a wooded section of campus toward Cecily’s dorm. The moon was not quite full, but between it and the occasional flashes of lightning from the impending storm, it was just bright enough to pick out the path. Patches of fog hovered ghostlike around the tree trunks, and clumps of Spanish moss dripped from the branches overhead. The area was pleasant and pretty during the day, but shrouded in mystery tonight. Not unlike Cecily, Rorie thought. She’d barely said a word since they left the party, leaving Rorie completely in the dark as to exactly what was going on back there.

Whatever had happened between them, confusion didn’t begin to describe Rorie’s feelings about it. One minute they were playing a game to get back at her ex, the next they were in the middle of the most passionate kiss Rorie’d ever experienced. Her body still hummed from the all-consuming, unexpected exhilaration of that kiss, a kiss that Cecily had initiated, and escalated, all on her own. Rorie would swear to that fact. She may have daydreamed once or twice about kissing Cecily like that, but she never would’ve had the guts to do it. The odds of rejection were much too high, and Rorie didn’t have the protection of pretending she was anyone but herself. Wasn’t that something actresses learned to do, what Cecily had done?

But could it really have been an act? It had felt all too real from where she stood. Nearly knocked her off her feet. She had no idea what to do about it, and Cecily’s sudden silence provided no clues.

“Are you sure you’re okay with walking?” Rorie asked, searching for any topic to provide a break from her own thoughts.

“Of course,” Cecily answered. “It’s only a mile, and neither one of us should be driving. That beer went straight to my head,” she added with a nervous giggle. “And I think someone was smoking pot in the next room.”

“Yeah, maybe.”

So that’s her official explanation for how her tongue ended up down my throat? It was almost amusing. Temporary madness brought on by a single cup of weak beer and possibly someone smoking weed in the same ZIP code as them. At least it answered one question: no way had that kiss been a normal acting trick. Cecily was trying as hard to understand what had transpired between them as she was.

We need to talk about this.

“Look, Cici, I—” Rorie began.

“The storm is getting—” Cecily said at the same time. “Oh, sorry. What were you going to say?”

Rorie lost her nerve. “Never mind.”

How many times since they met had it felt like she could read Cecily's mind, like her thoughts were being broadcast over a radio into Rorie's brain? She knew instinctively the most mundane things, like what salad dressing she would order. But when it came to the important stuff? Nothing but static. Infuriating.

“The storm,” Cecily repeated. “I think it’s going to hit soon. We should hurry.

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