Blue Moon by Marilyn Halvorson

Author:Marilyn Halvorson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUV000000
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2004-04-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Mom and I were just finishing breakfast the next morning when the phone rang. Mom picked it up. “Hello? Oh, yes, hi, Cole.”

Cole? Now what? Maybe one day of exciting life on a dairy farm had been enough for him. Maybe he wasn’t coming back. That thought should have made my day. I wondered why it didn’t.

Mom was talking again. “No, he’s already gone out to milk. Can I take a message for him?” She listened a minute. “Oh, I’m sure that will be okay. Half an hour won’t matter that much. All right. Bye.” She hung up.

I was going to ask what that was all about when Sara stumbled into the kitchen, still in her pajamas. “Was that for me?” she asked through a yawn.

I jumped at the chance to rattle her chain a little. “No, Princess, it was not for you. Who do you know that gets up before noon?”

She stuck her nose in the air. “Well, at least I have friends who call me. I don’t spend my life looking at, talking to and smelling like a horse. You never have time for people.” Then, with a sly grin, she added, “Except for Cole baby, that is. Are you actually going out with him?”

“You shut up about me and Cole. I wouldn’t go out with him if he was the last…” Before I had the words out I was halfway out of my chair and getting ready to wring her scrawny neck. But my mother’s strong hand landed on my shoulder and plopped me back in my chair.

“Stop it, both of you. There are two months of holidays ahead and there is no way I plan to spend that time as a referee. Get along or, so help me, I’ll have the two of you washing every wall in this house with a toothbrush.”

My mother can and will make good on that kind of a threat. Sara and I sat glaring at each other until Mom broke the silence. “Speaking of Cole, that was him on the phone. He’s going to be a little late for work because he has to drive his dad somewhere. Strange,” she added thoughtfully, “I always thought his mother was a single parent. She waits tables at the Sunshine Cafe, I’ve seen her around town a few times and met her on the road. But she’s never had a man with her.”

Sara narrowed her eyes. “I bet his dad’s an escaped convict and he has to stay home so nobody sees him. Maybe Cole’s gotta take him to meet his partners so they can do another bank job.”

Mom groaned and rubbed her forehead like she might have a headache already. “Spare us, Sara. Since you’re up, hurry and eat and then go ahead and clean up the kitchen. It’s time I was out helping your dad.”

“Yeah, me too,” I muttered. The faster we dropped the subject of Cole McCall and his family, the better I’d like it. Still, all the way to the barn I wondered just what was going on.

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