Echoes by Robin Jones Gunn

Author:Robin Jones Gunn [Gunn, Robin Jones]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-82465-3
Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Published: 2012-11-14T05:00:00+00:00

Lauren reread her words, and something in the pit of her stomach began to churn. Did she truly want to meet him and end the masquerade? So many times she had thought about what it would be like to finally meet. So many times she had written something to that effect in one of her letters, only to erase it before sending the letter. She always ended up deciding it would be better to wait. Wait for what? She wasn’t sure.

Perhaps wait for KC to initiate the meeting. Or for it to somehow just happen.

Whenever she thought about it logically, Lauren found she had no complaints about how nice and slow everything had gone. It gave her time to do some important things. First, she had gotten over Jeff. She still felt twinges of hurt every now and then. But she wasn’t afraid of them. They were only evidence of healing, KC had once written to her. He said scars still tend to pinch even after they’re healed, if they’re pulled the wrong way.

Second, she had finished school. She had filed the final paperwork two weeks ago and was now qualified to teach. However, she wasn’t ready to leave her job at the bank just yet. Not since she had received a raise two months ago. Also, Lauren wasn’t sure she wanted to teach in a public school in the city. She still held to her dream of living in a small town. Her preference would be to teach at a small school. Someday.

And the third reason Lauren was glad her relationship with KC was correspondence only was because she had gained weight. Ten pounds since Christmas and a total of nearly fifteen since Jeff broke up with her last summer. It had been a cold winter, and she had comforted herself by the fire with cookies, sweets, and lots of Irish Breakfast with milk and sugar. Lauren had also spent most of her evenings and weekends studying and had exercised little. She had finally given in and accepted her new shape at the beginning of the summer, forcing herself to buy some clothes that fit, even though she wasn’t happy with her thickened waist.

The worst part was that no one seemed to agree with her that she had gained too much weight. They all, including Brad, said she had been too skinny before. That idea was a struggle for Lauren. She had lost ten pounds when she started to date Jeff and had consciously tried to keep herself thin because she knew that was how he liked her. Now she was more rounded. More average looking.

It was funny, but she had dreamed more than once that she and KC met and she looked the way she used to, with her long blond hair and cinched waist. She never could see his face in her dreams, and she would awaken each time, groping in the darkness, desperate to see his expression. Was he disappointed that she was an average woman

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