A Way Back Novels & Stories

"Ok?" "Ok"

“Cicio, do you still love me?” His right hand found the zipper in the back and started unzip the dress. “I do, Dani.” “Undress me, yes.” He heard me cajoling and took the straps off my shoulders. “I want you, Dani.” The last piece of garments were stripped. He looked at me like something fascinating and brand new. “Love me, Dani. Let me love you.” Ciccio thrust himself into the woman in his dream, thinking he finally found the way back to me. He moaned and grunted most innocently, like a young boy making out with his first love.

Axel began, deftly catching the noisy phone before it met it's unfortunate end, "we should consider giving you a landline you can carry about instead. Tied right to your waist." I shot him a glare, daring with my angry gaze to say one more word and cross the lines. "It's a signal from one of your jets. It's currently heading towards New Zealand." He tossed the phone back after he was done looking at the screen. "The dumbo was right after all."

I thought of going back to research many times, but every attempt was pulled off course by what I thought was love. It wasn't until everything fell apart that I finally saw it clearly: love was never my salvation. Depending on someone else to save me had always been a fantasy. The moment I touched my instruments again, a stillness washed over me—something Nate had never been able to give me. A quiet fullness that felt like home. After returning, I wasted no time finding a rehabilitation therapist to help me stand again. I woke up early every morning to train. I fell countless times, and every time, the therapist looked at me with concern. But I just smiled and shook my head.

Alive. “…I lose my only way back.”

"This way.” ***

"I'll be right back." **

"At last, you're back Amber." <> <> <>

The way things that belong to a place always eventually find their way back to it, moving through whatever wilderness they've been surviving, following something older than direction and more reliable than a map. The way home calls to the people it was made for.

"You said you're moving right, that's not a problem. Ah-ah, let me finish what I'm saying. I know that right now, you're indefinitely upset and angry and you feel like they're making a huge mistake taking us away from each other but it might not be so. I know I know I'm going to miss you a whole lot but it's a good thing. See, you'll make new friends when you go to your new school and everyone is going to love you because you are tea. You're a very amazing girl and everyone is going to love you, everyone is going to want to be your friend but we will still be bestest friends. You're going to have your parents with you and I know you hate them right now but you'll find yourself loving them al