A Room on Lorelei Street by Mary E. Pearson

Author:Mary E. Pearson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Published: 2005-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

She leaves, squeezing through narrow streets bulging with parked cars, down the glaring, lighted thoroughfare of Main, with the faint scent of the dahlias still lingering in the car and the stronger scent of solitude sweeping over her. Alone again.

The Thunderbird is a dark vacuum, an airless space light-years from everything. She fights an impulse to drive by her house and shake Mama, shake her over and over, shake her until a part of Zoe shakes right out and Zoe picks it up and runs. And the impulse shifts to a burning urge to drive to Grandma’s tiny apartment and bang on her cold, bolted heart, to go to Aunt Patsy’s and Uncle Clint’s and beg to be worthy like Kyle, to go back to the party and dance with Carlos even if Reid is watching, dance close and hot until their sweat runs together, because his eyes and his mouth and everything about him makes her burn, but instead she keeps her hands steady on the wheel, steady, all the way to her room on Lorelei Street. When she gets there she changes her clothes, turns out the light, and crawls between light sheets cooled by a thin breeze.

But still she burns. She is on fire with need. Burning that goes deeper than her skin, etched deeply, maybe in her soul, and there seems to be nothing for it, no balm, save inching her arms up to hold herself and wishing the arms weren’t her own.

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