02 Second Chance by Tim Lahaye

Author:Tim Lahaye
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Christian
ISBN: 9781439535301
Publisher: Paw Prints
Published: 1998-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

Crises

VICKIfelt awkward when Judd pulled into the driveway of his big suburban home. She had been in a house that size only twice before, both times for parties. She hadn't felt com-fortable then either. But this was different. There was no party here. There was no one here but the two of them. When was the last time she had been alone with a teenage boy without winding up drinking, smoking, doing dope, or worse?

Judd seemed nervous, showing her around, telling her she could stay in the guest bedroom downstairs while he would keep his room upstairs. "Doesn't it give you the creeps to stay so close to where the rest of your family used to be?" she asked.

"A little," he said. "But I have no choice. Where else would I go?"

Vicki had just been thinking the same thing. She didn't say so. All she said was, "I hate to ask, but do you have anything to eat around here?"

"Name it," Judd said. "We have anything and everything you want."

Vicki and Judd raided the refrigerator and ate well. She noticed he was as heavy-eyed as she was. "I don't like to sleep during the day," she said. "But I'm going to pass out sit-ting here if I don't lie down."

Judd pointed to the guest room. "I'm going to sleep too," he said. I wouldn't be surprised if I sleep all day and all night, but I've never done that before. More likely, I'll wake up after seven or eight hours, like I always do."

"Me too," she said. "But I don't remember ever being so exhausted."

"I'd say we've been through a lot, wouldn't you?" he said.

They both laughed for the first time since they'd known each other.

Vicki quickly grew serious. She said, "You know, Judd, I'm going to have to ask you to run me somewhere tomorrow so I can get some clothes. I'll keep track of whatever it costs and pay you back."

"No problem," he said, "but first you ought to check my mom's closet. She was about your size."

"Really? What size was she?"

"I don't know. She was about your size, that's all I know."

"Wow," Vicki said. "I hope I'm still thin when I'm her age."

"If you believe what Bruce Barnes believes, we haven't got much more than seven years to live anyway."

"Plenty of time to get fat," Vicki said, shrugging. What kind of a remark was that? She had never engaged in small talk with anyone before. In the past everything she talked about had been centered on what she liked or didn't like, what she was going to do or not do. She hated talking about normal things--- "nothing" things, she always called them. This was the stuff adults and other boring types always talked about.

"You can have whatever you want of my mom's stuff," Judd said. "I mean, she's obvi-ously not coming back. Will it make you feel weird?"

"Weird?"

"Wearing someone else's clothes, someone who disappeared."

"How will you feel seeing me in your mom's clothes?"

"I don't guess I'd mind.

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