This Pact Is Not Ours by Zachary Sergi EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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EVERY SUMMER, IT’S THE same.
Mom turns off the air conditioner and rolls down the windows, releasing
the preserved air from the five-hour drive. There’s nothing like that first
breath of Copper Cove: the crisp breeze off the lake, the clean cut of the
grass, the sap and pine from the trees. But it’s not just the smell—what
really makes that first breath so special is the flush of familiarity. The rattle
of relief, to have returned.
This is my eighteenth summer at Copper Cove, one trip for every year of
my life, and this stay is going to be the best yet.
It kind of has to be.
Our first stop is always checking into Hemlock, the red-oak dorm that sits
atop the campus hill. Every year it surprises me how Hemlock manages to
feel so welcoming, with its twin-sized bunk-beds and paper-thin sheets, or
the tiny bathroom that attaches Mom’s room to mine. Yet somehow Copper
Cove’s humble accommodations only make everything feel comforting. The
simplicity is calming. Being here, my ties to the outside world already melt
away, stripping the traces of my normal, tattered life. For the next three
weeks, this basic dorm is once again my palace.
My fortress.
My reigning perch.
“Hemlock Eighteen,” Mom sighs, appearing in the doorway of our
shared bathroom. “I remember standing in this very room with my own dad.
I can’t believe I’m old enough to have a college-age child.”
“Not college age yet Mom, at least not for another month,” I say. “By the
way, what happens when I make it to twenty-five and the Hemlock rooms
run out? Where do we stay then?”
“Make it to twenty-five and you’ll find out.”
We Piccones have many long-held family traditions when it comes to
Copper Cove, and one of them is to always live in the present and not dwell
on the future. This ends up rooting us a bit too firmly in the past, but I’ve
never minded that much.
I drop my bags in my room and walk back out onto the balcony running
along the front of the rooms, which boasts a view of the campus below.
Copper Cove is the brand of idyllic you might see on a postcard, a lakeside
retreat center that doubles as a seasonal vacation spot. Right now, it’s all
here for me, every roof tile and treetop immortalized in my memory.
There
are the summer cottages painted blue and red and yellow. The stained
clapboard bell tower of the Auditorium, rising above the treetops. The
sloping grass hill that leads down to the tennis and basketball courts. And of
course, the shimmering blue bay of Lake Charlie, which stretches for miles
underneath a chain of forest-green mountains.
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