Secrets in the Shadows (Secrets 2) - Page 111

the window again. Then he looked at his hands and

the floor before he looked at me.

"Because like you, even though I say it, 1 don't

want to believe all that and besides ... I can't help

wanting to be with you. Most of the time, as you

know from my poem, I feel like I'm in a cage, but

when I'm with you, I feel free, even if it's a reckless

feeling, a reckless freedom, it's still it feels good." "Then it can't be bad, Duncan, and you can't let

your mother or anyone else make you think it is. And.

don't whip yourself with Scripture either.-

"I know," he said softly. "1 know." He looked

up at me again, and this time, I thought there were

tears in his eyes, too. "Will you help me overcome

this idea?"

"Yes," I said. "We'll help each other." He smiled softly. I held out my hand, and he

slowly reached for it. For a moment that was all we

did, hold onto each other's hand. Then his grip grew

stronger, and he rose to come to me. He knelt before

me and lowered his head to my lap. I stroked his hair,

and we were like that for a while, neither of us

speaking.

He's right about us, I thought. We are similar:

According to what he was telling me, he was afraid he

would turn out to be his father, and I was running

away from my grandparents and Sandburg because in

my heart I was afraid I would turn out to be my

mother. These thoughts drove us into the same dark

corner, only at the moment he seemed more helpless,

deeper driven. I was at least trying to escape from

myself.

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