Hush

okay?”
“I will be.”
“What’s going to happen toyou?”
“I don’t know, but I think I’min the place I need to be right now.”
“I do too,” she says, crying. “Ithink a lot of things that happened to you when you were growing upreally hurt you.”
“I know, and now is the time toconfront those old ghosts.”
“Jade, I hope you’re not angrywith me for telling Dickson what I saw the morning Robbiedisappeared. Also, I’m sorry for the mistakes I’ve made. You’re theonly person I want to be with and I know that now.”
“Good, because I need to knowthat you’ll be standing there when the smoke clears. And, no, I’mnot angry with you. In some strange way, you may have savedus.”
“I love you, Jade. Always.”
The End
Jay Lang grew up on the ocean,splitting her time between Read Island and Vancouver Island beforemoving to Vancouver to work as a TV, film and commercial actress.Eventually she left the industry for a quieter life on alive-a-board boat, where she worked as a clothing designer for rockbands. Five years later she moved to Abbotsford to attenduniversity. There, she fell in love with creative writing and wrotefive novel manuscripts in a year. She spends her days hiking anddrawing inspiration for her writing from nature.