Dominion of the Damned by Bauhaus Jean Marie

Author:Bauhaus, Jean Marie [Bauhaus, Jean Marie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Daydreamer Publishing
Published: 2012-12-07T08:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-FOUR

Chris’s mom had packed them a picnic dinner. When they reached the historic section of the base, they found a grassy spot beneath a lamp post and spread out a blanket. “Let’s see,” Chris said as he pulled foil-wrapped packages out of a mini cooler. He peeled back the foil to peek at its contents. “We have some quiche.” He unwrapped it and set it before them before reaching back in.” And here’s the good stuff.” He pulled out another lump of foil and unwrapped it before presenting it to her. “My mom’s homemade peach cobbler.”

“Oh my God,” Hannah exclaimed as she got a whiff of the still-warm cobbler. “That smells like Heaven.”

“Wait’ll you taste it.” He reached back in and pulled out two bottles of Budweiser. “I know it’s the cheap stuff, but the good stuff’s a little harder to come by these days.” He twisted the top off of one of them before handing it to her. “You do drink beer, right?”

“I’m a college student, aren’t I?” she said as she took it from him. “Or at least, I was.” She took a swig. Cheap beer or not, it was one of the best things she’d tasted in a long time.

Chris grinned as he handed her a fork. “What were you in school for?”

“Nursing. I was studying to be an RN.”

“Where were you going?”

“I was at Northern State. What about you?”

He shrugged as he opened his own beer. “I was at the junior college.”

“So you weren’t in the Army?”

He laughed. “No. No, my dad would’ve loved that too much.” He reached for his cobbler, and Hannah smiled.

“Do you always eat dessert first?”

“Whenever I can get away with it.” He shoved a bite in his mouth and closed his eyes in obvious pleasure. It was too tempting. She tried her own bite of cobbler. Instant food-gasm. Forget the beer, this was the best thing she’d tasted in recent memory.

“Anyway,” said Chris, “I was an Army brat growing up. We moved all over the place, and I was sick of it. I just wanted to settle down and stay in one place for more than a couple of years. Of course, that thrilled my mom. She said it was bad enough having to worry about Dad going off to war without having to worry about me, too.”

“Can’t say I blame her. What were you in school for?”

“I hadn’t decided yet. I was also working at Walmart, trying to save up enough money to transfer out to UCLA. My girlfriend — my ex-girlfriend, I mean.” The amendment had a touch of bitterness to it. “She got a scholarship out there. We tried to do the long-distance thing until I could go join her, but then last winter she e-mailed me to tell me she wanted to date other people.” He took a drink before adding, “Now I don’t even know if she’s still alive.”

“That’s terrible.”

He shook his head. “I’m sorry. Don’t you just love it when you go out with someone and all they can talk about is their ex?”

“It’s okay,” she said.

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