The Glass House by Suki Fleet

Author:Suki Fleet [Fleet, Suki]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2015-04-03T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Our glass-like happiness….

THE FOLLOWING day Thomas invited me over again. I liked being at Thomas’s house. I was beginning to feel it was a safe space to be. All the quirky pieces of artwork made me smile—and I noticed some new piece of art or another of Thomas’s crazy vinyl creations every time I was there now. They weren’t all animals like I’d thought at first, and I’d decided the musical instruments were the coolest. Like the animals they weren’t detailed, but you could see what they were, what they evoked—the curved shell of a cello, the flared tube of a trumpet. Thomas didn’t do detail, even in his drawing—it was completely unnecessary for him. His magic was in knowing what was essential to bring something to life and what was not.

His gran cooked us tea—he’d told her to make anything but chips or pizza, so she made spaghetti bolognese (which tasted nicer than it looked, thankfully) and we sat and talked around the kitchen table.

There wasn’t really an opportunity for us to sneak off to Thomas’s bedroom. His gran kept looking between us and smiling as if she knew something of what was going on. And every small brush of skin we managed seemed to make us both react wildly. My heart went into rapid-fire every time Thomas simply brushed his foot over mine beneath the table.

“I’m sorry we couldn’t… be alone or anything,” Thomas said, shifting awkwardly from foot to foot as we stood on the doorstep to his house to say good-bye.

I shrugged. It was okay. I sucked my bottom lip into my mouth and wished I were brave enough to kiss him out here in the street. I really wanted to kiss him. Since yesterday I had begun longing for that intensity again. There was no one else around to see our secret weakness, but still, I couldn’t do it.

“I’ll see you tomorrow,” he said. “Or maybe I’ll call you later….” He grinned. And I knew he would definitely call me later.

I held up my hand in good-bye and walked into the setting sun—the red glow staining the glass of the sky with colored light.

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