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Manuela: Send me pics. And be careful.
Eden: I will.
Eden: Don’t teach dad to text while I’m gone, ok?
Manuela: Oh, great idea! Maybe that will calm him down. A text every minute, that’ll do it.
Eden: You suck so bad, Manu.
Manuela: That’s my job as a big sister. To suck.
Manuela: Hey, En? You still here?
Eden: Yeah.
Manuela: Is there something you’re not telling me?
Eden: Of course not. Talk soon. Bye, Manu. x
twelve
It’s not a servant girl, I think fiercely.It’s Eden.
Eden.
Eden Persuasion Elliot. Yep, her second name is Persuasion. I know she’s self-conscious about her name being ‘weird’, but I think it’s brilliant. A unique name for a one-of-a-kind girl. She told me that her dad used to call her ‘Pet’ but she got mad the one time I tried to do the same, so I stopped.
Eden Persuasion Elliot.
How do I know her full name?
Because it’s her.
It hits me like a punch in the gut. It’s her, beyond any doubt.
The coil of fear in my gut tells me all I need to know. She jumps and I watch her slender body arch in the air, my heart stopping and starting again in slow-motion as she falls and falls and falls.
I was such an idiot to try to deny it was her. Of course I recognized her. I’d have known her anywhere. You never forget a single detail of the girl your soul belongs to.
And as I see her flying through the air and plunging into the deep, green water below, I know something else too: I never stopped caring for her, in spite of everything she did.
I know this, because I don’t finish ripping my jacket off. I don’t take off my shoes. I leap after her over the cliff, blindly, my body in motion before my brain has given the order. I don’t wait to see where she lands, I don’t wait to see if she’s ok.
I jump after her.
I jump in after her, it’s that simple.
I freefall over the water, my body slicing through nothing but mist and cool air, and I know with sudden clarity that I thought it was all a lie.
I never got over her. I never forgot one single heartbeat.
The moment I see her jump, it all comes rushing back, piercing me through.
I thought I had made myself cold, unfeeling, unattached. I thought I was too hard to hurt. But here I am, heart in my mouth, hurtling through the air to get to her.
And as I fall, I know it’s true: I’d die for her.
All over again.
