Ghost of a Chance Book 1 in Above the Grave Trilogy Read Free

picture and then handed it to her. Her mother
tried to hand the man some money but he wouldn’t accept it.
    Drew thought about that now.
Knowing that was
probably the man’s only income and he wouldn’t accept her
payment for the drawing. He had said with a toothless smile
that it was for the little angel who had given him the inspiration
that was sure to last him for the rest of the day.
    “Do you ever wonder why at twenty
-five years old, I
am still a virgin?” Drew said still staring out at the buildings.
Drew’s shoulders shot up then as if she were expecting a blow.
She was usually very careful about what she said when it was
about her, this time it just fell out of her mouth.
    If Liza had been standing up she was sure that she
would have fallen right back down. Never in the eleven years
that they had known each other had the subject been brought
up. Sure, every now and then they would joke about making
out with guys or how Drew had never been in a serious
relationship. Liza had just assumed that what Drew did behind
closed doors was something that she kept to herself.
How
could she be her best friend and never know that she had never
had sex with anyone?
    “Drew, I am as plain Jane as they get and I have a
husband and three kids at twenty-five. How can you still be a
virgin when you have the body of an underwear model and the
face and hair of an angel?”
    Drew laughed and turned to sit down in front of her
closest friend and the only person that she had ever talked to
about what was getting ready to be said in her life.
    “First, and most importantly, you are not plain Jane.
You are very beautiful and you know it. Do you remember that
day that I beat the crap out of Kelly in the 7th grade?”
    “Of course I do. I think that you have gotten
me in
enough trouble since then that we should be pretty much even
by now though.” Liza laughed, but the laugh didn’t quite make
it to her ocean colored eyes.
“Did you even know who I was before that day?”
Drew asked.
    “Drew, you were the strange girl who
always sat in the
corner by yourself at lunch and who would rather go to ISS
then read a report or answer a question aloud in class.
If
anyone spoke to you, you would turn your head and pretend
not to hear them. I remember following you around like a lost
puppy until you finally broke after the “Kelly” day.” Liza
sighed and took a moment to calculate her words. “You have
been a different person since then though. You are fun and
outgoing and everyone that knows you loves you.
Though,
sometimes I think that you make people a little uncomfortable
when you aren’t in your element.”
“Why do you think I stay around here? Everyone is
weird around here. I fit right in!” Drew smiled.
    “You aren’t weird, Drew. You are definitely different,
but you aren’t weird by any means. Now, are you going to tell
me why it is that you are still a virgin or are you going to make
me follow you around for the next two weeks to get you to
open up again?”
    Drew laughed starting to relax a little. “Yes, I was
getting there.
The reason that I was such a loner before that
day was because just two years before I was almost raped by
my stepfather.”
Liza gasped. “Drew! Oh my God! What happened?”
    “Well, I was twelve years old and my mother had been
remarried for about 3 months. I tried and tried to tell her that
the guy was a creep. He just gave me a really bad feeling, you
know?” Drew paused to light a cigarette and to take a moment.
She had never spoken about this to anyone and she knew that it
was time to get it all out.
As uncomfortable as it made her,
there was a huge change coming and she thought that if she
talked about her past, maybe it would help her ease into the
future. “He was constantly trying to get me to sit on his lap
and he even would beg to brush my hair after my bath at night.
Mom kept saying that he was just trying to be a dad, but at
twelve years old that was just a little too