Inbetween by Tara Fuller

Author:Tara Fuller [Fuller, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: teen, ghost, young adult, entangled publishing, ya, paranormal romance, in between, soul, tara fuller, death, inbetween, reaper, hell, heaven, spirit
Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Chapter 20

Finn

At times like this I thanked God I couldn’t feel. November wind rushed through me, knocking the last of the leaves from the trees around me as I waited outside Emma’s school for the bell to ring.

There’d been no sign of Maeve for almost a week. As much as I didn’t want to be away from Emma, I couldn’t stand the monotony of going through her classes with her anymore. Maeve’s silence was the perfect opportunity to get away from the useless information being pumped into my head. I’d never been great in school. While the other kids had their noses diligently shoved into books, I was somewhere else all together, staring out the window, my head in the clouds that I would eventually die in. I guess that’s why I jumped at the chance to actually fly in them. I could still hear Mama as she slammed the dishes around in the metal sink so hard I thought they might shatter.

“Finn, you can’t go. They can’t make you. You’re still a child. You haven’t even finished school.” She was crying, tears flowing down the crevices that years of worry and hard work had already carved into her cheeks.

“For the last time, they aren’t makin’ me, Mama. I want to go. It’s what’s right.” I’d never sounded so uncertain. I was like a dog with its tail between its legs, afraid of being scolded. But then again Mama could drive the fear of God into the toughest of men, so I shouldn’t have expected to be any different. “And I’m not a kid anymore. I’m eighteen.”

“What about the farm? You know your daddy’s getting too sick to do it alone. He needs you.”

I looked away. “Henry can help. He’s sixteen now. He’s old enough.”

“You can’t wait to get out of this place, can you; away from us. Just be a man and admit it. You don’t want to end up a poor hick farmer like your daddy.” Her words trickled through me, burning holes as they went, until every emotion was draining from me like water through one of Mama’s metal strainers she used for noodles.

“I am being a man. When I come home a war hero, you’ll be proud of me. You’ll see.” I was trying to swallow back the useless tears, but they refused to be quieted. Instead of finishing the speech I had prepared, I walked over to her and placed my hands on her shoulders, smoothing out the wrinkles in her sunflower-print dress. “I love you, Mama. I’m sorry.” I placed a kiss into the brown curls that were fastened behind her ears and walked away, only stopping long enough to grab my duffel bag, which carried everything I owned in the world.

It was the last time I saw her. It was the last thing we’d said to each other.

I shook off the last of the memory that was eating me from the inside out when the bell rang. It always took Emma a few

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