The Language of Cherries by Jen Marie Hawkins

Author:Jen Marie Hawkins [Hawkins, Jen Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult, Romance, Magical Realism
Publisher: Owl Hollow Press
Published: 2020-02-10T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR

Oskar’s Journal

A hundred heartbeats

stand between me and her moss-green door.

I grip the canvases.

Maybe I’ll say…

“Hi.

Sorry I didn’t tell you until now, but

I understand everything you say.”

But there are so many difficult sounds,

and sorry is hard enough to say as it is,

for anyone.

I know it’ll never come out right.

Or at all.

But it has to be done.

I step to the door.

And knock.

The seconds unroll in my head

lengthening into minutes

that lengthen into regret.

She isn’t even here.

She’s a tourist.

Hardly any time

And she’ll be gone.

If she isn’t gone already.

This is an exercise in futility.

I get in my car and drive away.

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