Bigfoots in Paradise by Doug Lawson

Author:Doug Lawson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: 2018-12-09T16:00:00+00:00

“You really should have seen that coming,” I tell her later.

It’s December. We’re living at Hope’s dad’s. Rochelle is in a Santa Cruz home now—half rehab, half temporary housing back in the warehouse district north of Route 1. I visit sometimes, and bring Noah. Hope comes too, though it took a lot of initial persuading.

“Tell me about it,” Rochi says. “That kid of yours is a natural, you know.” She smiles at Noah, who raises a Hot Wheels car in her direction.

Rochi got off relatively easy. The lab wasn’t hers, someone else confessed to running the whole thing, and while there will be a ton of lawsuits, she’s only being called as a witness. Hope and I didn’t mention the knife, under the condition that she makes rehab stick. So far, it seems, that’s working.

We talk about things she’s planning to do. Get an apartment soon in Aptos or Soquel. She’s looking for a job, maybe something in retail to get her on her feet. She says she’s even thinking about librarian school. I don’t know how much of that to believe, to be honest, but the fact that she is at least thinking of options is progress.

And she talks about Nathan, too, something neither of us had been able to do with anyone else. “I never admitted how much that little guy meant to me,” she says, loosely holding a cigarette, and staring out the dirty window of her room into the gray December fog. “How much that whole time meant. How much I missed it.”

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