Last Flight Out by Jennifer Vaughn

Author:Jennifer Vaughn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Waldorf Publishing
Published: 2017-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 20: DEZI

She has been talking now for over a half hour. I don’t interrupt even though I have a ton of questions to ask. I let her go on, because I think if I stop her, she’ll pull back again, and I’ll lose her. I have known her for as long as it takes to cook dinner, and yet I feel like she’s a part of me.

She is nothing like I expected and yet she is everything I had hoped for, and so much more. She is strong, sweet, and kind. She is deeply proud of her family yet wants to make her own way. The fancy trappings of her extraordinary life are missing. She is simple and entirely genuine. As she divulges one private fact after another, I feel myself falling deeper. I want her to trust me. I want her to know that no matter what happens when we land, I will be there when she needs me to be.

I’m in, Ella.

She tells me about Lauren, and I remember a photo shoot I did a few years back with the cast of the show. We both get a laugh out of that one. “It’s a small world,” she says, with a sweet grin that tells me a good deal about their relationship. Friends, I think, that will be together for life. It is a surprisingly heady feeling, to be allowed into someone’s life and entrusted with her secrets. Her smile slips away, and she gets serious again. There is more to tell. Instinct tells me to keep my mouth shut and let her work through this on her own. I get the sense she is on the cliff, having one of those Thelma and Louise moments when she has to decide if she should floor the accelerator or back the hell up. I hold my gaze, trying to give her strength by nodding just a bit to tell her I am still right here. Her voice shakes a little, and she suddenly loses her train of thought and bursts out with the most obvious question of all.

“Why, Dezi? Why are you here right now?”

The answer is simple, and yet it surprises even me because it’s right there, like an instant recall. I don’t have to reach for it, it just appears.

“Because I can’t imagine not being here. With you. I’m not a perfect guy, Ella. I can be an asshole sometimes, and I’ve been way too focused on myself for a long time. I never thought there was something missing until you stumbled in and almost crushed my iPod.”

We both laugh, and she nods her head like, “Yup, that’s what I do.”

“I know you’ve got a crazy life, and I can’t even imagine the pressure of being you. I have this feeling that you’re not quite sure what to do with yourself, and something is really, really wrong right now. Yeah, you have a job, and your mother is the frigging vice president, and you go to

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