Breathing Ghosts by Laekan Zea Kemp

Author:Laekan Zea Kemp [Kemp, Laekan Zea]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2013-09-29T04:00:00+00:00

I feel my pulse in the back of my throat. And not because June read this. Not because she knows everything. But because Nia did.

I sit there until the moon is rising over the river, reflection rippled in the current. I sit there reading Nia’s notes—poems and parables, addresses and drawings and bits of her biology notes. I sift through rushed retellings of her weekend at her grandparents, the weird dream she’d had the night before, the customer at her uncle’s restaurant who’d left her a fifty cent tip, and her latest fight with Mari.

I sit there, stitching together memories and waiting for her to sit down next to me until it’s dark. Until I can’t see the words anymore. Until I feel as invisible as they are.

Shadows crawl across the grass, steps muted. Someone sinks down next to me and when I look I see Carter.

“Sorry about earlier,” he says.

June keeps walking toward the truck, not looking at either of us, and for a second I feel charged, a little angry. I don’t want to think about what she might have said to him. But then he gets up without another word and in the silence I feel relieved.

And then I say, “I’m running, too.”

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