Asking for Trouble (The Kincaids) by James Rosalind

Author:James, Rosalind [James, Rosalind]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

He’d had two months, as it turned out. And then there he’d been, eighteen, aged out of foster care, with nowhere to live and noplace to go.

He’d stayed with some friends of Conrad’s for a couple months, but he’d known all along it couldn’t be more, because they were having a baby. Conrad was in Iraq, not exactly in any position to be more help than that, and Joe wasn’t Conrad’s responsibility anyway. He was nobody’s responsibility but his own. So he’d crashed with a high-school friend until graduation, doing his best to earn his keep, buying as many groceries as he could manage and cooking dinners and always being polite, always respectful, always grateful, staying at school, at work, at the library as much as he could, trying not to get in the way of family time, to give them enough in return that they’d let him stay.

That didn’t last forever, either, because Aaron’s parents sent him to Europe for a month for graduation, and Joe could hardly stay there when Aaron was gone. He’d spent that last summer before Stanford on the move. At one friend’s or another’s, sleeping on couches during the better times. In the cheapest motel he could find, those last couple weeks, when everyone else was off to college and he’d run out of money except for what he’d got for the bike, which was going to get him to California. Starting awake as the noisy, ineffective air conditioner cycled on and off, trying not to hear the sounds through the thin walls from rooms that were rented by the hour. Hoping he could make it without having to resort to the homeless shelter. Waiting out the time until he’d have a place to go.

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