Jumper by Alexes Razevich

Author:Alexes Razevich [Razevich, Alexes]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2016-08-05T04:00:00+00:00

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“Oh my God, Maddie,” Trish said as Maddie slid into the booth next to her. “That is the most beautiful hat you’ve ever made. The same color as that sweater you bought.”

Maddie gave a little embarrassed half shrug. “It’s made from the same yarn. The jumper kept unraveling, so I took the whole thing apart and made the hat out of it.”

Trish leaned close. “You’re so clever with your hands. I wish I could make something like that hat. I’d wear it everywhere.”

Maddie let the hint slide past her. Anything she made from that yarn was going to be hers alone. Besides, she was getting really tired of people taking advantage of her willing nature.

“You’re a people pleaser,” her mother had said on many occasions, “just like me. We can’t help ourselves.”

But that wasn’t really true, was it? Maddie thought as they drove in Trish’s car to the local mall for some serious shopping. She could help herself. She could say No. She could make a new world and new way of living for herself if she tried.

And she would try, Maddie decided while inside one of Trish’s favorite shops, nodding as her friend held up a red wrap-around dress, giving her unspoken approval of the purchase. The dress had looked great on Trish. She hadn’t had to “people please” to give her thumbs up for that, at least.

It was dark when Trish dropped Maddie off in front of her apartment building. Maddie waved goodbye and stood a moment breathing in the night air. She looked up. The second moon was rising, smaller than the first but just as full and bright.

Her heart clattered in her chest. A second moon was wrong. There was only one moon in the sky. Was it a satellite falling towards Earth? Were they all going to die? Probably not, she reasoned. She’d read somewhere that space junk falls down all the time but burns up in the atmosphere.

She shook her head. Geeze, she was losing it. There had always been two moons—one silvery white, the other a pale version of her jumper’s peacock blue.

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