Children of the River by Linda Crew

Author:Linda Crew
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780307517289
Publisher: RH Childrens Books
Published: 2011-05-26T21:54:57.555000+00:00

After a long time Jonathan finally spoke. “A penny for your thoughts.”

Sundara started. “A penny for a thought? What does that mean?”

“Haven't you heard that expression? It means you have to tell me what you're thinking right at this instant.”

Her eyes widened. “I have to tell my private thought? This is the American custom?”

He laughed. “I guess you don't really bave to.” He was studying her face. “But now I'm really curious. What were you thinking?”

“Oh ” She smiled, her cheeks warm with more than the sun. “I'm just thinking how I like this. How I wish it could always be this way.”

“Well, why can't it?”

“Oh, Jonatan. You know why.” She had tried so many times. But she couldn't explain something to him that he didn't want to understand.

He looked at heir for a moment. “Sundara, do you— well, ever since I first saw you, I've had the strangest feeling. The way I was just drawn to you, like somehow I'd known you. before ”

She spoke matter-of-factly. “You mean in our past lives?”

He blinked. “Wdl, I wasn't thinking of it so literally, but this feeling ”

Sundara remembered that first time at the market, when she'd thought Jonathan reminded her of Chamroeun. Had it really been Chamroeun, or was the familiarity something else, something like recognizing a place you'd never been before, or meeting someone you'd been waiting for all your life?

“Yes,” she said shyly, “I think I feel that way too.”

They looked at each other for a moment, then he said, “You are just so unlike any girl I've ever known.”

“That for sure.” She flashed her dimples at him. “Black hair, black eye.”

“I love your black hair, and your eyes aren't black, they're kind of a warm, melty brown.”

“Oh, my skin too dark for you.”

“Don't be stupid. You want to know the truth? I've got so used to looking at you, everybody else seems kind of washed-out in comparison.”

“Is that true?”

He nodded. “And you know, as long as I'm confessing —at first when I started asking you to tell me about Cambodia?” He made a face. “I really just wanted an excuse to sit there and look at you .”

She smiled. “I know.”

“You know? You've known that all along?”

“Well, no, but after a while, like you say, I get the picture.”

He grinned. “You're not mad?”

“No.”

“Because I really did get interested in your stories. I wasn't faking that. They got to me. You started making me see how sheltered I was. That I'm actually pretty spoiled.”

“Jonatan. You cannot help you have a nice life. Why you always feel so bad about it? Your family have the kind of life I want for myself. When I see how people can live here, I want to make that my goal.”

“But you were just saying you wanted to be a doctor and help people.”

“I do, but I also want a family and a house. I want to have enough money so I don't have to worry how am I gonna feed my children. I want to have a car so I can bring them to the pretty place like this.

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