When Pigs Fly by Krissy Lanier

Author:Krissy Lanier [Lanier, Krissy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Krissy Lanier
Published: 2023-06-19T16:00:00+00:00

In the car, on the way home, we start talking about Farrah and Joey’s wedding. The countdown is on. It’s only two weeks away. “I can’t wait to dance!” Kash says, laughing.

Junior year, Dan invited me to his prom, and I was apprehensive but thrilled by the idea of it. Cassie took me to get a dress — it was midnight blue with diamonds at the top and I felt beautiful in it. But I will never forget the pitiful look she gave me when I came out of the dressing room — like I was some sort of dressed up insect. You look so different, she said with a hint of arrogance. That was her idea of a compliment, I had assumed. I let her words slide off my back and allowed myself to savor how beautiful I felt, looking at myself in the Filene’s dressing room mirror. I couldn’t even imagine going to an event like prom, but I was certainly looking forward to it.

But I never got to go.

I ruined my chance the night I made out with Zack. I watched as my world fell apart, and my first and my only opportunity to experience that rite of passage plummeted into nothingness.

I smile at Kash. “I have never danced on a dance floor before.” I share this tidbit of information and feel Kash glance over at me from the driver’s side. Thankfully, he doesn’t act shocked.

“We are going to change that, two weeks from today. Meet me there, or be square,” he says.

I laugh. “That’s cheesy.”

He shrugs. “You want to stargaze?” Kash asks me as we drive past the park by the river.

“Sure.”

He pulls over and parks along the water. He gets out and heads to the bed of the truck, grabbing a blanket. As I get out, he motions for me to follow him over to the grass, where he lays out the blanket.

“Let’s count,” he says as he’s lying down. I stare at him and quickly follow his lead, lying next to him on the blanket.

“Let’s just look. I don’t want to count right now,” I whisper, looking up at the stars. The expanse of velvet black sprinkled with little specks of light ignites something in me, like it always does. It’s like looking at a familiar picture you’ve walked by a hundred times, but then one day, you glance at it, and it’s almost like you see it for the first time.

My eyes find the brightest star right away, and I think of my momma. After she died, I used to pretend that was her when I’d go up on the roof at the Brickman’s. I would talk to that one bright star and hope that wherever she was, she could hear me.

“Isn’t it weird that the stars are always the same, no matter when you look at them?” I ask, not taking my eyes off the sky. Kash doesn’t answer right away. “These are the same stars I looked at when I was younger.

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