Praise for Me Before You
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1e26ddfa-8682-47f5-9fb7-43f8d306c0c8Moyes, Jojo - Me Before You
It’s going to be okay. I tried to repeat
Nathan’s words to myself. It’s going to be okay. Finally, I turned onto my side, away from the sea, and gazed at Will. He turned his head to look back at me in the dim light, and I felt he was telling me the same thing. It’s going to be okay. For the first time in my life I tried not to think about the future. I tried to just be, to simply let the evening’s sensations travel through me. I can’t say how long we stayed like that, just gazing at each other, but gradually Will’s eyelids grew heavier, until he murmured apologetically that he thought he might…His breathing deepened, he tipped over that small crevasse into sleep, and then it was just me watching his face, looking at the way his eyelashes separated into little points near the corners of his eyes, at the new freckles on his nose. I told myself I had to be right. I had to be right. The storm finally blew itself out sometime after 1 A.M. , disappearing somewhere out at sea, its flashes of anger growing fainter and then finally disappearing altogether, off to bring meteorological tyranny to some other unseen place. The air slowly grew still around us, the curtains settling, the last of the water draining away with a gurgle. Sometime in the early hours I got up, gently releasing my hand from Will’s, and closed the French windows, muffling the room in silence. Will slept—a sound, peaceful sleep that he rarely slept at home. I didn’t. I lay there and watched him and tried to make myself think nothing at all. Two things happened on the last day. One was that, under pressure from Will, I agreed to try scuba diving. He had been at me for days, stating that I couldn’t possibly come all this way and not go under the water. I had been hopeless at windsurfing, barely able to lift my sail from the waves, and had spent most of my attempts at water-skiing face-planting my way along the bay. But he was insistent and, the day before, had arrived at lunch announcing that he had booked me in for a half-day beginners’ diving course. beginners’ diving course. It didn’t get off to a good start. Will and Nathan sat on the side of the pool as my instructor tried to get me to believe I would continue to breathe underwater, but the knowledge that they were watching me made me hopeless. I’m not stupid—I understood that the tanks on my back would supply me with plenty of air, that my equipment was working, that I was not about to drown—but every time my head went under, I panicked and burst through the surface. It was as if my body refused to believe that it could still breathe underneath several thousand gallons of Mauritius’s finest chlorinated. “I don’t think I can do this,” I said, as I emerged for the seventh time, spluttering. James, my diving instructor, glanced behind me at Will and Nathan. “I can’t,” I said crossly. “It’s just not me.” James turned his back on the two men, tapped me on the shoulder, and gestured toward the open water. “Some people actually find it easier out there,” he said quietly. “In the sea?” “Some people are better thrown in at the deep end. Come on. Let’s go out on the boat.” Three-quarters of an hour later, I was gazing underwater at the brightly colored landscape that had been hidden from view, forgetting to be afraid that my equipment might fail, that against all evidence I would sink to the bottom and die a watery death, even that I was afraid at all. I was distracted by the secrets of a new world. In the silence, broken only by the exaggerated Download 2.9 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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