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“Okay, I'll grab the duffels and you hold your backpack. Do you need me to hold the suitcase?” I nod, this thing is heavy.
“I’ll take the duffels and hold your hand.” I say reaching for them. I cross them over my body and then I stuff mom in my backpack. “Sorry mom. I won't make a habit of this.” Then swing the back pack over my shoulders. I feel like I look ridiculous. Kreed starts laughing. “What?”
“You look like you have a hunchback. Let me have the backpack.” He reaches for it. I step back and almost fall backwards from the weight. Kreed reaches out to steady me.
“But mom is in there. What if you lose her? I would never forgive you. If I lose her-”
“And you’ll never forgive yourself if you lose her and I’m not going to let you live with that. Also, you’re tipping over. That’s not very portal safe.” I laugh at that.
“Portal safe? Sounds like you're the ride operator at an amusement park.”
“It’s going to be worse than that.” He deadpans and now I’m really concerned. What am I getting myself into?
“Okay.” I say warily and let him take the bag. He swings it onto his back and loosens the straps a bit. He grabs the handle on the roller case then reaches out his hand.
Fuck. This is it. This is where I make a decision that would make every mother out there cringe. He’s practically a stranger and I’m going to hop worlds with him? Fuck, I’m dumb as shit.
Here goes nothing.
I grab his hand and my shoulders rise up and my face pinches. Preparing for some unseen beating.
“Relax, S’rella.” I look over at him and he winks at me. Then, I’m being battered by wind.
Chapter 16
Dana
What. The. Fuck. Colors whip past me at supersonic speeds. Blues and greens. I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that the green is trees and the blue is water or maybe sky. I feel like I'm being stretched and condensed at the same time. The scream I let out gets ripped from me by the wild stream of wind going past us. I grip Kreed's hand with all I have. I don’t dare try to move my head to look at him. I’m afraid the wind will snap my head clean off. It’s only a few seconds and we are suddenly standing. My brain thinks we're still moving but my body knows we've stopped. I immediately turn my head and vomit. Kreed holds me and the bags all while keeping my hair back.
What a man, he can multitask.
I dry heave a few times before I stand up and wipe my mouth with the back of my hand. I shake off the last of the nausea and I take the bags off. Then, I step toward the bluest water I have ever seen. It laps lazily at the shoreline. I can see small colorful fish floating on the currents. As soon as I scoop some water in my hands they scatter. I slurp up some water and swish my mouth out. Salt water over vomit any day.
I look up at Kreed and glare at him. “That was way worse than what you said. Gods damn, I don’t want to ever do that again.” I say as I look away from Kreed and take in the island. “Where exactly are we?” I can see we are on a very small island. I mean, it's like maybe the size of a football field.
“This is the Allway. This is probably where things went wrong when someone was flying or boating. They had to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. The portal happened to be opening to an unknown world and someone happened to fall in. Men volunteered to try and come here, to search for Naomi but none of them ever returned. We stopped sending men after a while. Fearing that most of the men had died by ending up on unforgiving worlds.”
“It makes me highly uncomfortable that I am standing in the infamous Bermuda Triangle. I don’t know what I was expecting but I can tell you, it was not this.” I walk past him and put my hand up over my eyes, I squint looking from end to end. I stare up at the endless blue sky. I start to notice a moving, swaying iridescent sheen over the whole island, like a giant bubble covering the island. “Is that a shield of some sort?” I ask, pointing to the sky, “Is that what keeps the island hidden? ” I ask and turn around to face him. He gives me a strange look. “What?”
“You can see the shield?”
“Yes…” I drag the word out unsure if I like where this is going.
“And you see ghosts?” I look at him and wait for him to continue. “I think that’s part of your power and you just weren’t able to correlate what it was and therefore just assumed you could only see the dead.”
“Maybe.” I say while grabbing the duffels.
“Okay, so this won't be as terrible but still terrible.” Kreed does some strange hand gesture and says something in a language I can't even begin to pick apart. I feel a huge woosh of air and I instantly brace myself. I watch as Kreed throws the roller case and my mother into sand and they just disappear. Swallowed up by the Earth.
“What!?” I yell “Why would you do that!”
“They are fine. Naomi is fine. I promise”
I glare at him. “Next time, warn me Kreed.”
“Then how would I get to see that adorable spiteful look?”
I glare at him some more as Kreed drags me forward. Then he moves to stand in front of me. He pulls me into his arms and I hold onto him like my life depends on it. It probably does, honestly. He backs up a couple more steps and just falls back. Only we don't hit sand like my brain expects but I also know I wont. My stomach swoops down and I scream and I suddenly have to pee. Everything is a blur as we fall and fall. Kreed is laughing and whooping like this is the best ride of his life. Gods, he’s fucking crazy. I grip him tighter and put my nose in his neck. Just as I feel myself coming to terms with imminent demise, we come to a halt. I look around and we are just hovering, in mid air, with me on top of him.
