Donna Shelton
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Books
Ransom Publishing 2008
SaddleBack Educational Publishers 2012
By Donna Shelton
EXCERPT:
I’ve read it. I’m sitting here. I stop breathing - I don’t know for how long. My eyes start to dry before I realize I’m not even blinking. It’s like my whole body has just ceased to function. Breathe – in… out… blink... in… out… blink…
Why didn’t I see this coming? All the signs were there. Why couldn’t I have done something?
Perry was just so angry with me. I did try to talk with him, didn’t I? Think, Dawn, think! Maybe if I’d tried harder, put more effort into finding him, pounded on his door harder, called his house more, busted out his bedroom window to crawl inside and force him to talk with me… There were so many things I could’ve done. Should have done. Why didn’t I do them? Why didn’t I tell Perry that I loved him back?
Maybe if I’d never got involved with Brian or never brought home Perry’s personal life story and laid it on my desk out in the open for Brian to see… Brian. What a dirty word that’s become to me now. I can’t say it anymore without it leaving a foul taste in my mouth. Everything is because of Brian. If only it had stayed just the two of us, Perry and me, none of this would have happened. We were happy. We could have stayed happy. Damn you Brian!
I grab the notebook and fling it across the room. It flaps through the air and slides across my desk and onto the floor along with some other papers that were on my desk. That isn’t enough though.
