I had to admit,stretching my legs was a good idea.With all the chaos surrounding me, it had been a bit...stifling.
My dad had given me a wide berth most of the time, unaware of precisely how to deal with me once I was a full-fledged teen and not a quiet little kid.It was like, for him, time stopped when my mom died, and every now and then he’d look up and realize years had passed, and he didn’t recognize me.
I was used to being alone, I guess, and I found some sense of comfort in that.Because I was never really alone.I had Miles.My best friend, who happened to be trapped inside of a computer, states away.
I washed my hands in the bathroom sink, the fluorescent lights flickering above me.
Miles.
His name felt monumental on my tongue.
It felt like there was something important I was missing, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it.
My memory of him was...murky, at best, but thefeelingI got when I thought of him...
My body warmed and my heart beat faster.My best friend, my confidant, my...
Boyfriend?
I wasn’t sure one kiss constituted a boyfriend.But...
I couldn’t deny that ever since I woke from that vision, my mouth felt all tingly and my stomach was in knots.
The lights flickered again, the room darkening around me as I tried my hardest to remember.
When I looked up in the mirror, my blood froze.I could see his face, so vividly.His dark eyes and hair, that boyish smile.I’d seen hundreds of pictures of him, but in the flesh, he was...taller.
Hotter.
My heart skipped a beat and without thinking, I reached out to him, but the knock on the bathroom stall alerted me, and I turned in surprise.
“Just a sec,” I said as I finished up, turning back around as the lights brightened and stayed put.
He was gone, or the image of him was gone.Like he was never here at all...
Of course he’s not here.
What were the odds he’d be on a train to Eureka?
A sharp realization hit me.
I’d shown up in Heaven, unaccounted for, because I’d been ejected from my body, and only until recently had I remembered evengoingto Jasper Springs in the first place.
What if...
What if Miles waslike me?
What if he was walking around somewhere, a lost soul?
I stumbled out of the stall, nearly knocking the woman in front of me over.
“Sorry,” I said, not bothering to hang around long enough to hear her curse me.
I had to tell Val and Endor.If I was not?—
“Mercy...”
I froze in the aisle, turned to look for the caller of my name.There was no one walking around, and most of the people in their seats were reading or had their headphones in if they weren’t sleeping.It was nearing nine pm, and it was dark out.With any luck we’d be arriving in the early hours of morning.
