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Ava
NEARLY OUT OF BREATH, I STOP BEHIND A TREE AS THEO YELLS FROM
across the lawn, “I know you’re here somewhere, little Ava. Come out,
come out, wherever you are!”
He still calls me that nickname his older brother gave me when I was
no more than five years old, even though I’m nineteen now. I think he uses
it to poke fun at him, although he’s rarely around to hear him say it these
days.
“It’s cold out here,” Theo complains as he gets closer to where I hide.
“Just give up so we can go inside already.”
I silently answer his plea. Never! I’ll never give up. We’ve been
playing this game all our lives, the two of us on the lawn of the King
estate, his family’s home and my father’s employer’s property, no matter
the season or the weather. It’s our own private version of hide and go seek.
Theo’s been my best friend for so long I can’t remember a time when
he and I weren’t running around on this grass. When he came to the house
for me this morning, I didn’t hesitate to join him, even though it’s freezing
cold out today like it has been every day of this week since Christmas. It
didn’t matter, though. He called, and I said yes to our little game.
“Ava, I’m serious,” he says as he keeps moving toward the tree
concealing me. “All you have to do is give up and I’ll win. Then we can go
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inside and get something hot in us.”
Coming from any other guy my age, that would sound sexy or
perverted, but not from Theo. He simply hates winter and wants to go into
the house, but he’s too competitive to let me win. I’ve always joked that he
must have been stolen by the Kings from some other family who lived in
someplace warm because he hates the cold more than anyone I’ve ever
known.
I stay silent, knowing he’ll find me soon. Closing my eyes, I listen to
the wind blowing across the grounds, happy to be shielded by this
enormous maple tree’s trunk. The air smells crisp, like right before a
snowstorm shows up. It freezes the inside of my nose when I take a deep
breath in, but unlike Theo, I love this weather.
Sensing something behind me, I open my eyes and turn around to see
him smiling at me. He grabs me and pulls me to him in a bear hug.
“Gotcha!”
My cheek brushes against his black ski jacket as he holds me tightly to
him and brags about his win. “That makes nearly two hundred this year to
your measly fifty or so.”
I push him away, shaking my head at his incorrect calculations. “No
way. I caught you at least one hundred times this year, so forget that fifty
nonsense.”
He smiles in that way that reminds me of a pirate. “I think you’re
crazy. We didn’t even play for two months this summer when I was away.
That makes your claim of a hundred virtually impossible, Ava.”
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