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Darkness pressed against my eyes, heavy and endless, until the weight began to lift, and something soft surrounded me

instead. Pillows.

I was face down in them, my cheek crushed into their warmth, the familiar scent of clean sheets and faint coffee wrapping around me.

I blinked, my vision blurry and sluggish, as I tried to lift my head. But my body felt like lead, and my arms refused to cooperate. I let out a groan and sank back into the pillows.

Then I felt it. Gentle fingers threading through my hair, soothing and rhythmic, grounding me.

"Jess?" I murmured, my voice muffled against the fabric.

She was there, half-

sitting beside me with a mug of coffee cradled in one hand. Her other hand moved through my hair, brushing back the damp strands that clung to my forehead. She didn't say anything, just kept looking at me with those. impossibly bright eyes, a soft smile playing on her lips I blinked again, trying to shake the fog in my head, but it didn't help. "I think I fell off the boat," I muttered into the pillow.

Jess nodded, her smile widening just a little. "You did, babe."

damn Jess. It

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my chest, so sharp

becoming one big fucking blubbering mess. "I wanted to get off that island so bad. I wasn't

faltered, never stopped

I buried my face deeper into the pillow. "Now, I probably won't get to see you ever again. I'm

before I could stop them, hot and choking ast they soaked into the pillow beneath me. My chest heaved with the force of my sobs, but Jess didn't speak, didn't pull away. She just kept stroking her fingers through my hair,

soft and smiling, but it was

for her, but it was like something was holding

the more I

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shook her head, still smiling, and her lips moved, forming words I couldn't understand. The sound of

as I strained against whatever was holding

couldn't name. Then, as her voice whispered through the air again, I caught one word, clear and distinct amidst the blur of everything else: "It's

around me like a lifeline, pulling me back even as her face faded completely into the void. What was okay... was it okay to let go? Was I dying at the bottom of

salt and fire. My eyes flew open, the dream.

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