Semua Bab The Sunrise Doesn't Wait: Bab 1 - Bab 8

I stayed in my seat until the last light in the auditorium went out. Only then did I come back to myself.In the dark, I pulled up a bitter smile. Habit was a terrible thing.A click, and the lights came back on.One of the student volunteers hurried over. "Ma'am, I'm sorry. I thought everyone had gone."I smiled and told him it was fine.Then something seemed to occur to him."I feel like I've seen you before. You're the one who always stays till the end of Professor Gyver's talks, aren't you?"Something turned over in my chest. Even a stranger had noticed. Julian hadn't reacted at all.I nodded and started to leave, but he called after me."There's a dinner upstairs tonight for the professor. You seem to really love his work. Do you want to come?"I could see now, but everything still swam a little at the edges. I followed him up to the second floor, cane tapping ahead of me.Toby Reese, according to the name on his lanyard, found me a seat in a corner. When I looked towar

Not long after, my phone rang."Lena, did you get a cab? Text me when you're home."Before I could answer he'd hung up. All that came through was one line from the background."Forfeit is, the professor has to kiss Clara!"A little pouting from her and he'd panicked so completely that he forgot I couldn't see well enough to flag down a car by myself.I opened the little mirror I'd picked up off the passenger seat.There was a photo-booth strip stuck to the glass. Julian and Clara, faces pressed together. I looked at my own face through theirs.Plain, washed out. Nothing like bright, glowing Clara.Julian and I used to promise each other a photo-booth strip on every birthday. It started when we were students. Later he said we were too old for something so childish. Later still he said my eyes couldn't focus for the camera, and he was afraid I wouldn't like how they came out.Now he had a student, and it wasn't childish anymore.I lowered the mirror and walked out of the garage

We stood facing each other in the dark, and there was nothing but wind moving through the trees.Then a phone rang and broke it.Julian answered. A few seconds in, relief washed over his face.He turned and ran, and a few steps out he remembered me.He slowed down. He didn't turn around."Lena, don't say things you don't mean. Nine years doesn't come apart in one night. Once Clara's all right, I'll come explain everything myself."I didn't answer. I pulled off my ring and dropped it in a trash can.Three years dating, six years married. It'd be a lie to say I walked out of it clean. The apartment was nothing but the two of us, everywhere I looked. By the time I'd packed my things the sky had gone pale at the edges.I called movers to take everything to my parents' place, then got a cab out to Suncrest Peak, on the far side of Lake Larkspur.I'd barely reached the top when the sky changed. Blue-white going soft gold, and then the sun came up out of the horizon line, first a sli

"I know. In my head you're still the little kid who used to chase after me. How did you end up carrying all this?"He propped my pillow higher. "Just so we're clear, I'm still reporting for apple duty on schedule. You can tell me anything you want. All I want is for you to be happy. That's the whole list. So relax."There wasn't much wrong with me, but my parents kept me in the hospital another two weeks anyway.Now that I could see, I decided to go back to what I used to do and open a handmade-goods studio. I spent the quiet days drawing up designs. Dad bought me a storefront downtown and had it built out to my drawings.He must have spent a fortune. By the day I was discharged, it was completely finished.Mom was worried I'd get bored, so she took over the lease on the cafe next door. She made specialty coffee occasionally. Mostly she wandered around my studio poking at things.I'd built up a lot of clients before I lost my sight. The moment I posted that I was open, they all c