Hannah's Touch (2009)
Hannah's Touch
“One minute I was normal. The next minute I wasn’t.
If you listen to my parents, they’ll tell you I haven’t been normal since my boyfriend, Logan, died. But they don’t get it. When he died, a part of me went with him. Plus, I could have stopped it. The accident that killed him, I mean.
But I was normal. Until it happened.
It was the third Sunday in September, sunny and warm. School was back in. The maple leaves on Seattle’s trees were curling like old, arthritic fingers. Fall was only a footstep... away.
I wasn’t thinking about fall that Sunday. Or school or maple leaves. For sure I wasn’t thinking about bees.
I was at work, thinking about Logan, and I was cold. It was freezing in the drugstore. Bentley had the air conditioning cranked to high.
“I swear, Bentley, it’s warmer outside than it is in here.” We’d run out of Vitamin C, so I was restocking the middle shelf beside the pharmacy. “I don’t know why you need the air conditioning on.”
“It keeps the air moving.”MoreLess
If you listen to my parents, they’ll tell you I haven’t been normal since my boyfriend, Logan, died. But they don’t get it. When he died, a part of me went with him. Plus, I could have stopped it. The accident that killed him, I mean.
But I was normal. Until it happened.
It was the third Sunday in September, sunny and warm. School was back in. The maple leaves on Seattle’s trees were curling like old, arthritic fingers. Fall was only a footstep... away.
I wasn’t thinking about fall that Sunday. Or school or maple leaves. For sure I wasn’t thinking about bees.
I was at work, thinking about Logan, and I was cold. It was freezing in the drugstore. Bentley had the air conditioning cranked to high.
“I swear, Bentley, it’s warmer outside than it is in here.” We’d run out of Vitamin C, so I was restocking the middle shelf beside the pharmacy. “I don’t know why you need the air conditioning on.”
“It keeps the air moving.”MoreLess
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