Calista “Callie” Hargraves & Noah Scott // The Secret of Hope Island [Original Story]
“You look terrible”, he observed softly and put his hand to her forehead. His brows furrowed with worry. “You’re burning up. Whatever it is you’re trying to do here, it’s making you sick. We need to get you in the water. I can carry you.”
Noah moved to stand up, but Callie gripped onto the collar of his shirt to stop him, shaking her head so vehemently it left her dizzy.
“No”, she pleaded weakly and buried her face in the crook of his neck, wanting to curl even closer into his arms and absorb a little more of his warmth. His hand might have been cool against her skin, but her teeth chattered. She might have been burning up with fever, but she felt like she was freezing to death.
“Please don’t make me go back in the water.” Suddenly there were tears in her eyes. “There’s something in the dark…”
“That’s just the fever, Callie”, he told her gently while his hand ran soothing circles on her back. “There is nothing in the water.”
“It’s not in the water”, she sobbed - desperate because he didn’t get it and desperate because she was too lost in her feverish haze to make him. “There is something inside of me. I can hear it when I’m… when I’m in the water. It’s calling me. It wants to hurt you…”
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Ever since she can remember, seventeen-year-old Callie Hargraves has spent every summer at Waterford House - her Nana’s home - on Hope Island, a picturesque, little island just thirty miles off the coast of Maine. But that all ended the summer her aunt Lyssa died. Callie doesn’t remember what happened, has all but forgotten about the hot and humid days leading up to the two policemen showing up at Waterford House one morning to tell them Lyssa’s body had been found at the foot of the cliffs.
Now, four years later, Callie, and her mum Molly are moving to live with her Nana and her aunt Mae, while her father starts his new job in Portland. But even though Callie is worried that this is could be step one in an elaborate ruse to ease her into the idea of her parents splitting up - because why else wouldn’t they go live with her dad?- it’s hard not to get sucked in by the magic that is Hope Island in the summer. Especially when in her absence childhood friend Noah Scott has turned into a total dreamboat.
But when Noah almost drowns one night and Callie saves him - against all odds and all laws of nature - she stumbles upon an old family secret that she should not have learned until her eighteenth birthday. With her whole world turned upside down Callie starts to not only question her present, but her past as well…