BOMAW 1-3 by Mercedes Keyes

Author:Mercedes Keyes [Keyes, Mercedes]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-06-23T15:39:13+00:00

It was 7:45 when Shawn's motorcycle crested the top road above the valley of his family's home. Leaving the motel in town, viewing the area had Sylvia in love with almost everything she saw. For the summer, his hometown would be a wonderful place to live, however, winters were another story entirely. Hillsboro was aptly named. Not one street was flat. All of them were undulating, with sharp sudden curves. Shawn made her squeal twice when they went up a hill where she couldn't see which way the road was going until they were on top of it heading down, then it made an immediate left curve. She squeezed him tightly, thankful her stomach was empty, because she would have messed his back and good. With all the hills and valleys, farmland, plowed fields, farms, barns and grain silos dotting the landscape near and far, the roads peaking and dipping made it easy for the eye to survey far in the distance, she could only view it in wonder.

"How you doing, sweetie?" Shawn asked as he slowed a bit to not make her sick with so many elevation changes.

"I feel like I'm on a rollercoaster ride, the worse kind."

He chuckled, understanding. "But it's beautiful, isn't it?"

"Yes, it is…there's no denying that."

When they reached the road of his parent's home and farmland, they came to rest on the top edge of the valley bowl, a spot in the road that gave a perfect vantage point. Shawn paused so Sylvia could look down and into the distance. "That's home, baby," he announced with pride. Sylvia gasped. "Oh, my goodness! Oh, Shawn…look at it! You grew up living there? Oh, my god…living here!" Trying to take in the wonder of it, she admitted, "I'm so envious of you. You don't know how fortunate you were." The sight took her breath away.

"You know, I stop here every time I come home. I've always paused just to take it all in. Even when I was really young and walking home from school, I'd stop as my brothers and sister played around and charged ahead. Shanna was the one who always stopped and stood here with me, holding my hand. She'd never say a thing, but would look as I did, patiently waiting for me to get over my awe of it."

"I can definitely see why."

On the edge of saying that, there was a flash from the house that sat in the valley floor in the distance. Shawn grinned. "We've been spotted." He chuckled. "We better get down there; if my eyes don't deceive, that would be Shanna, Sasha, and Angela." He laughed, Sylvia smiled and hung on as they finished the journey to his home. The road curved to the right and went on for a quarter of a mile, leading them down and then dipped steeply, sucking the breath from Sylvia as she clung tightly once again. Pulling into the yard, Sylvia's heart was pounding. The house was a massive wood and brick colonial

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