Comics Will Break Your Heart: A Novel by Faith Erin Hicks

Author:Faith Erin Hicks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Published: 2019-02-12T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Summer was trying its best to come to Sandford. A sunny day as clear and warm as a spring day in California was followed by a double-digit plunge in temperature. To Weldon it felt like the weather was deliberately toying with him.

Weldon ran in the park every day, so often that he got to know the other joggers, nodding at them when they passed one another. He surfed the internet, reading all the news about the TomorrowMen movie on comic blogs and movie news sites. He watched a million TV shows about the intricacies of owning a pawn shop. And he tried to accidentally bump into Miriam.

The Emporium of Wonders was gone. Physically the store still stood, the posters in the window slowly curling from the heat as summer crept into Sandford, but the front door was locked, the CLOSED sign turned permanently outward. Weldon had returned to the store the day after running into Miriam at the park, and wandered in conspicuous circles in front of it, hoping someone might venture out. No one had. Not Mir, not her manager with his sad ten-dollar haircut and worn-out khaki pants. For the following three days he walked by the store, pretending to head to the Running Realm, always eyeing the darkened windows of the former Emporium of Wonders.

At the Running Realm, Ellie had frozen him out, taking extreme care to talk to him only when she had to. Weldon felt guilty and bought a new pair of shoes, hoping the commission would ease the tension between them. It didn’t.

A week passed with no sign of Miriam. It was as though the magnetic force that had been pushing them together had suddenly expired. In desperation, Weldon considered going to her house. He imagined walking up the porch steps, knocking on the door, and then—what? Weldon tried to picture it in his head.

SCENE 1: Weldon Warrick walks up the stairs of the Kendricks’ house. He knocks on their front door. Stella Kendrick answers the door.

WELDON: Hello.

STELLA: Hello, Weldon! Come in, come in! Miriam’s been expecting you. She’s decided she doesn’t hate you anymore and would like to be your friend. She is flattered you decided to show up unannounced at her home. Would you care for a homegrown organic tomato? Or a hug?

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