The Mouse by Lauretta Hignett

Author:Lauretta Hignett [Hignett, Lauretta]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

“Fuuuuck!” Hunter roared angrily, reaching down to wrap both hands around his injured foot.

“Sorry!” Sunny was mortified. She floated down and pushed herself out of the Alternate and back to reality. Hunter’s eyes went to her when she reappeared; he looked furious.

“What the hell was that?”

“I’m sorry, I’m so so sorry!” She rushed over and tried to have a look at his ankle, knowing it was a dumb thing to do. He rolled away from her, which stung. Sunny supposed she deserved it. She took it on the chin. “Let me have a look,” she pleaded, as he rolled his jeans up.

“What, so you’re a medic now?” he muttered, not looking at her. Sunny moved away, giving him some space, and shrunk herself into a corner of the couch like a scolded dog. To be fair, she wasn’t sure what his ankle was supposed to look like anyway, so she couldn’t have helped. She just sat there, watching him gently turn his foot this way and that, assessing the damage.

“It’s a little tender. I think it’s probably just sprained.” He turned and glared at her, but when he saw how distraught she looked, he sighed. “I’m sorry.”

Sunny couldn’t meet his eye. He unwrapped his hands from his injured ankle and leaned towards her, and tried again. “Hey. I didn’t mean to yell at you. It just felt like you kicked me out, just then. I was startled. I’m not mad at you; I’m mad at myself. I let my guard down.”

Guard? She stared at him, confused. Hunter looked down, trying to hide something in his eyes. “You must have been trying to high five me or something, right?” He looked back up at her, and she met his gaze and gave him a tiny glimpse of a smile. “That’s better,” he said softly.

Her smile grew a little bit bigger. They stared at each other for a moment, both apparently wrestling with what to say next. Finally, Sunny unfolded herself from the couch and walked to Hunter’s kitchen. Opening the freezer, she extricated a bag of peas and rummaged around the kitchen until she found a clean tea towel. She wrapped the towel around the peas and brought it back to Hunter, who had hoisted himself up on the couch. Sunny knelt beside him at his feet and put the peas gently on his swollen ankle.

“Ahhh,” he sighed, closing his eyes and leaning his head back. He rested there for a few minutes before he finally spoke again. “I gotta say; that was worth a sprained ankle. It was unbelievable!”

“It is, isn’t it? And we didn’t even get very far.”

“The colours, the vibrations, the energy of everything! It was exactly like you described. And the floating – I barely even felt the lift, and it was completely effortless.”

“Wait ‘til we’re whizzing over the Amazon. That will blow your mind.”

“Ha!” he snorted. “I hope you can keep from fist-bumping me when we do that. I don’t think I’d survive a forty foot drop into the jungle.

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