A Window to Your Heart

By Sean McKissack

Jason Dennereck is in love—but how and when does he tell Tiffany, the object of his affection? Does he search his heart and bare the truth of his feelings, or does he manipulate the situation to create the world he wants?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sean McKissack
• Release date: Aug 18, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310342059

Sean McKissack

I like to read and write about unique situations and take the road less traveled with my characters. A lot of my stories are based on real life situations, skewed just a bit to protect the innocent as well as the guilty parties involved. I devote a lot of my time to characters, usually fleshing out everything that could possible be said about them so they are almost like friends (or close acquaintances).

Book preview

"Do you mind? Oh, it’s you." 

Yes, me…and who are you? 

You don’t know who I am? No, no, of course you wouldn’t. What does a great messenger have to do with a creature from the depths below? 

We are in agreement on that. 

You’re not the least bit curious? 

Not really…unless your intentions are nefarious. 

Me? What gives you that kind of idea? 

I believe you’re the one that brought the black plague to London… 

Oh, so you do remember me? 

Is it Linda…Lucille-? 

LYDIA! 

Yes, I remember now. Thank you for those happy days, really. Let’s not do them again. 

I follow orders. Don’t you, oh great messenger, Gabriel?  

"Please, cut to the chase: whose life will you attempt to destroy today?  

Destroy? No, I desire to make them happy. Every. Last. One.  It’s you who causes them to suffer. 

Get on with it. 

Oh, I do have a certain someone picked out. He has a one-track mind. Goes on for days and days thinking about only one thing. I like this one!  

Which means I’m going to hate everything you’re about to do.

A Window to Your Heart

By

Sean McKissack

Smashwords Edition

A Window to Your Heart

Based on The Strange Case of Jason Dennereck

© 1989-2015 by Sean McKissack

Cover Art

This Sky is All for You by Pairan

Internal Drawing By Nathaniel Bullard

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Special Thanks to:

Robert Bent

Nathaniel Bullard

Tiffany Cochran

Chris Dowling

Erin Briscoe Woodall

I. In the Pursuit of the Dream

II. Restless Heart

III. A Way

IV. The Love Crusade

V. Place in this World

VI. She Walks with Me

VII. Give It Away

1

In the Pursuit of the Dream

Everyone has that one dream…

The one that you constantly think about, the one that you would make happen as if your life depended on it…even though, in reality, it doesn’t, and life will go on anyway. There may be some pain and confusion along the way, but it does go on. Not…that…I’m speaking from experience, mind you.

Regardless, I believed in planning for the dream, and I had it all worked out—to an unreasonable degree—and as absurd or as crazy it may sound to you, I thought it was a winning proposal. I spared no expense, and everything was meant to be perfect, even if it meant getting a morning and afternoon paper route. It would be okay with me if I had to ask would you like to super-size that to the eight millionth customer. I could be destined to sell World’s Finest Chocolate door to door for the rest of my natural life because of it; but all of that didn’t matter. Not a thing on Earth could stop me from reaching the unreachable star: I was finally going to ask her out and do it in a big, awesome and spectacular way! If it was worth doing, it would be worth overdoing.

So where are we going?

You know I can’t tell you that just yet. It would ruin the surprise.

All I could do was stare deep into her eyes as I spoke. Every day, I would be lost in those eyes; they were a deep well of joy that I never wanted to stop diving into. And now, I had that chance.

The fact that we’re on a cruise is enough of a surprise for me. Can you give me a hint, maybe, Jason?

Every time she said my name, it felt as if my heart stopped.

All will be revealed very soon.

Okay, truthfully, I didn’t really have a plan. I was kind of winging it by then. I had only planned for the cruise. It was kind of an I wasn’t expecting it to even get this far kind of thing. I mean to walk up to someone at the spur of the moment and say, Hey, I bought cruise tickets to a small island off the coast of Africa. Would you like to come with me? and expect them to say yes is quite the proverbial long shot. It’s not even in the same league as throwing a basketball from clear across the gym, blindfolded, upside down, and still making the shot with nothing but net.

She did say yes though, and so there we were, heading for an island out at sea, with a cast of strangers with no faces. Because no one else mattered except for her.

The ship docked, and we walked onto the pier. I looked to the glimmering white sands of the beach in the distance.

Are you ready?

For what?

For whatever you want to do. We’re here for you.

We stepped off dock, onto the sparkling sand, and looked to the setting sun.

I want to paint the perfect picture for you, I said.

It’s already perfect.

Yes, because you’re here with me.

I took her hand and again stared into her eyes. There was so much I wanted to tell her, but where to begin? My thoughts rushed by at the speed of sound. Catching up to them and trying to think of something that made any bit of sense was