Monday, April 29, 2013

Chapter 9 from Mattie's POV

My heart is so distraught, Zeena is sending me off without a plan or place to sleep tonight. I am sitting on my trunk in my Sunday dress as Ethan enters the room, but I didn't hear him over my sobbing until he came near to me and placed his hands on my shoulders.
"Ethan, I thought I wouldn't ever see you again!"
He took me into his arms, and I clung to him when Zeena called out that Daniel Byrne wished me to hurry and load my trunk. With stricken faces, we drew apart and together carried my trunk out to the sleigh.
Ethan whispered to me, "I'm going to drive you over, Matt."
"I think Zeena wishes Jotham to drive me." Ethan insisted, however, so I went into dinner and cleaned up afterwards.
Ethan told me to be ready by three, he had business to tend to. As time arrived, he declared that we had lots of time for a good ride and was headed for Shadow Pond.
We sat and recollected on the time I begged Ethan to come to a church picnic with me, only to find him there later that evening.
As we returned to the sleigh, Ethan asked what I would do when I go to the city, and I assured him that I was stronger than I was when I arrived, that I could get a place in a store.
"You know there's nothing I wouldn't do for you if I could. If I could've gone with you, I would have!" Ethan broke out.
I turned to him, and showed him the letter he had begun writing for Zeena, and said, "Oh Ethan! What's the use?" I tore the letter to shreds. "I used to think of it when I couldn't sleep, after the time at the Shadow Pond."
"There isn't a thing I could do," Ethan began again.
"You must write me!"
"I suppose you'll marry! I'd rather almost have you dead than the feeling I'd get in that case."
"Oh I wish I was, Ethan! There's not been anyone good to me but you."
We pulled up near the slope where many went coasting, and Ethan and I had yet to coast, so we found a sled. I laughed as Ethan noted that he could coast down the hill with his eyes closed. I was never scared when with him, and as we climbed up the hill after the coast, panic of a goodbye overtook me.
"What's the good of either of us leaving now without the other?" Ethan said.
"I want you to take me down the coast again, right off, so we will never come back up and wouldn't leave each other anymore." I placed myself in the front, only to get up and sit behind Ethan, this was certainly better than parting.
As we flew toward the tree I held Ethan tighter, then we reached it.

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