A Handful of Pebbles by Sara Alexi

Author:Sara Alexi [Alexi, Sara]
Language: ell
Format: epub
Amazon: B00KX2FJOW
Publisher: Oneiro
Published: 2014-07-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

‘Did you have a good time?’

No one answers. Laurence shakes the captain’s hand.

They all walk to the car solemnly. Sarah grabs Laurence’s wrist. He looks back at her, his eyebrows raised. She yanks at him to slow his pace.

‘Now what?’ she whispers, releasing him.

‘Finn phoned Helena, tried to make it up with her. They seemed to be getting on well, they were even laughing, but then he said something about Pru, so now the boys have had a fight.’

‘Oh for goodness sake, everyone is acting like they are kids.’ She will corner Finn later, find out how things are with Helena.

‘The sailing was good, though. The captain was an interesting man, speaks several languages. Last year, apparently, he was held up by a pirate at gunpoint who wanted to sail to Morocco or somewhere. He has a commemorative plaque awarded by the police. A very interesting man.’ There is admiration in Laurence’s voice. She looks back to take another look at the sailor, who is round-bellied with thinning hair and sturdy legs. The captain looks up and smiles and the most notable feature is his eyes, as if the wisdom of the world lays behind them. She almost wishes she had gone along, too. Maybe he could have made some sense of her life.

‘Come on.’ Laurence is stepping into the car, impatient.

They drop Joss at his hotel. Finn does not say goodbye to him, and they drive home in silence. The term dysfunctional family comes into Sarah’s head. She always thought that was reserved for families on low income, or unmarried mothers with hundreds of children, but there is no avoiding that her family is not functioning.

Finn goes to bed on the sofa with a grunt of a goodnight. Laurence is in bed and sleeping by the time Sarah has finished her shower. She looks out of the bedroom window, the fig tree silhouetted against a million stars. If she wasn’t too tired, she would go for a walk beneath them, walk and walk until she found her dream.

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