My Diary from the Edge of the World by Jodi Lynn Anderson

Author:Jodi Lynn Anderson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

December 4th

Even though it’s been over a week since it happened, I remember the awful feeling of waking up that next morning perfectly. A shaft of sunlight was beaming down into the gulch, and, looking out the window and up, I could just make out the Cloud far, far above, keeping an eye on us. Down in the barn lot next door, the pegasi were still nickering back and forth to each other, and I could see Oliver leaning over the fence, feeding them carrots out of his hands. I walked out to join him, after first making sure Medusa was nowhere to be seen.

“Where’d you get carrots?” I asked.

“Harriet let me have them.” He didn’t look up at me, but slid a couple carrots into my hand, then gently pushed one of the pegasus’s muzzles in my direction. Her sandpapery tongue tickled my palms as she snuffled for the carrots, and I glanced up at the windows of the house nervously, looking for her owner.

“My dad bet his life on the wheel,” I said, not looking at Oliver but instead focusing on the pegasi instead.

“I figured,” Oliver said. The pegasi were vying for our attention, and Oliver gave away his last carrot.

I was buckling under the guilt, like I should have known better what my dad was walking into. I wondered how everyone had figured everything out but me. My mom says sometimes I ignore things I’d rather not know. She said that’s why I always get Cs in classes like Cotillion and Life Skills.

Oliver leaned back from the fence and put his hands on his messy hair, leaving a bunch of hay stuck there, unwittingly. He looked up at Medusa’s house, intent, like he was counting the windows or the numbers of shingles. I expected him to say something encouraging, which he’s usually good at, but he appeared to be lost in his own thoughts. It wasn’t like him, considering he’s usually the most considerate person I know.

* * *

Dusk came too quickly. We spent the morning and most of the afternoon in the parlor (the chimney, it turned out, was blocked by an old poltergeist Harriet had been trying to have exorcised for years, so we couldn’t light a fire in the fireplace), watching the clock and willing the moments to go slower. Oliver had offered to stay with Sam again while the rest of us went to see the genie. Mom and Dad hadn’t even bothered to try to deter Millie and me from coming with them. I think, in a way, they were relieved to have us along. It would mean a little more time with the four of us together.

“How do I find you?” Oliver asked.

“Find us why?” I said.

“If you don’t come back or something. I’d feel better if I knew where you were.”

Relenting, I drew a little map on the back of a Trump Western Gem tourist brochure of how we’d gotten to the cave.

Sam was actually feeling better for the first

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